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Coastal towns reel in National Lottery cash Rothesay on the Isle of Bute is set to receive Townscape Heritage funding 28/01/2016 Cleethorpes, Rothesay and St Austell will share £4.7million to renovate buildings, create jobs and training and help secure …

£21m in 21 years for Northern Ireland’s Townscape Heritage HLF has invested £21m in Northern Ireland's towns and cities 28/01/2016 Grants awarded through HLF’s Townscape Heritage programme have reached a major milestone in Northern Ireland. Over the last …

£4.7m funding for historic seaside towns Rothesay on the Isle of Bute is one of nine towns to receive Townscape Heritage funding 28/01/2016 Three Victorian seaside towns are the latest to be refurbished with cash from HLF’s Townscape Heritage programme. …

Huge boost for Hartlepool's Church Street Hartlepool Councillors Stephen Akers-Belcher and Jim Ainslie in Church Street 28/01/2016 The project will conserve and rejuvenate historic buildings within Church Street, improve the local environment and see the …

D-Day Museum awarded National Lottery funding Troops boarding ships ahead of the D-Day landings in 1944 27/01/2016 Today's announcement of £4,044,500 comprises the majority of the D-Day Museum's £4.9m transformation project with just £170,000 of …

Preserving the stories of the Second World War's most important missions Members of Bomber Command 27/01/2016 Two projects have secured HLF support to preserve and share the stories and artefacts of two of the Second World War's most well-known missions. …

Helping threatened species in Scotland A new HLF-supported project aims to help the endangered red squirrel 26/01/2016 Over the years, the fight for survival of Scotland’s wildlife has been made just that bit easier thanks to the support of HLF. Today it …

App to mark London's secret war The Baker Street Irregulars at a parliamentary event 26/01/2016 On the 70th anniversary of the disbanding of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), an app is being created to mark their story. The SOE was a secret service …

By George: Watts Studios opens to public for first time Mary Watts and helpers preparing plaster panels for Limnerslease, the Watts' home and studio Watts Gallery Trust 26/01/2016 Today, for the first time, the studios of Victorian artist George Frederic …