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| 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
Steam railways ‘will run out of coal’, industry warns
A body representing heritage railways in the UK has issued a stark warning after planning permission was refused for a coal mine near Newcastle.
The Heritage Railway Association (HRA) says English coal supplies will run out in early 2021, with Welsh supplies lasting until 2022.
Chairman of the West Somerset Railway Jonathan Jones-Pratt said: “The whole industry is in jeopardy over this.
“We’ve got so much coal here but the problem is that we can’t extract it.”
Steam locomotives rely on bituminous lump coal to burn, which is relatively smokeless and comparatively clean.
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