| Updated: 17:08, 04 April 2021
Local arts and heritage groups celebrated being thrown financial lifelines after the second round of government loans and grants were announced on Friday under the Culture Recovery Fund.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced details of 2,700 organisations being offered nearly £400 million in grants and loans to help the culture sector reopen and recover, on top of the £1 billion that has already been allocated in the first round.
Locally some of the organisations included:
Compton Verney given £460,000 grant (45820661)
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, £3,000,000 repayable loan
Warwick Arts Centre, £1,919,000 repayable loan
The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, £261,500 grant
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, £460,000 grant
UK’s rarest cars: 1983 Austin Ambassador Vanden Plas, one of only two left on British roads
This development of the Princess Wedge was a stop-gap model until the much better Montego was available – and now it s virtually forgotten
15 January 2021 • 6:00am
Doctor Martin Nancekievill is such a devotee of the British Leyland 18-22 family that he owns both a 1974 Wolseley-badged pre-production model – and the last Austin Ambassador to depart the production line. In the early 1980s the Vanden Plas flagship boasted a specification that would have been the envy of any middle-manager although a mere two examples now remain on the road.