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Turning a forgotten courtyard into a glass covered plaza is the aim of the £97M Great Court scheme at the British Museum. The Foster & Partners designed project, due for completion in 2000, has been funded by a £30M Millennium Commission grant, £16M from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £40M…

There will be double celebrations in Salford on New Year's Eve 1999, with the official opening of the Lowry Centre timed to coincide with the end of the century.

Construction of Liverpool's National Discovery Park is expected to start next summer providing backers can agree design changes with the Millennium Commission. Set in Chavasse Park close to the city centre, the project will contain attractions described by promoter Liverpool Millennium Consortium as 'celebrating the growth in information technology, broadcast…

Ulster's £90M Odyssey leisure, retail and science centre project is still in the hands of the architect Consarc Design Group which has pared costs down from £100M since the scheme got the go ahead last summer.

Failure to secure Department for National Heritage funding has forced the Wales Millennium Centre to scale down some of its plans. WMC wanted between £16M and £19M of Heritage money to allow inclusion of a high-tech Welsh history museum. But although £27M of Millennium Commission money and an £8.3M Arts…

THE UK'S WORST civil engineering tragedy of the decade - the fatal collapse of the ship to shore walkway at Ramsgate in 1994 - could be repeated at any time because of the government's failure to provide funding for an urgently needed design code.

THE SOUTH WEST was hit hardest by the weekend's extreme weather with heavy rain and winds gusting up to 185km/h on Sunday and Monday.

CHANNEL TUNNEL contractor TransManche Link has settled all of its claims with operator Eurotunnel.

The 20m high Angel of the North will not now be erected on its Gateshead roadside site until late February - two months behind schedule. Original plans to prefabricate the main body of the 208t structure in six sections have been scrapped in favour of building the entire torso on…

BRITAIN FACES a rapidly escalating road maintenance crisis following further reductions to local authority budgets.