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Department for Culture Media and Sport
30/05/2007
064/07
Following evaluation of the Darwin at Downe World Heritage nomination by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the World Heritage Committee's advisory body, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is considering withdrawing the nomination of the site and submitting a revised nomination to UNESCO at a later date.
24/05/2007
058/07
Lord Bruce-Lockhart has been appointed Chair of English Heritage, the Government’s statutory advisor on the historic environment, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced today.
23/05/2007
062/07
The famous Entrance Range including the Tote Board and the Kennels at Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium have been listed as Grade II, Culture Minister David Lammy announced today.
22/05/2007
This fact pack was updated on 30 August 2007
061/07
Betting on horse racing is the second most popular form of gambling after the National Lottery. More than 12 per cent of the population have bet on a horse race in the last year, while around 3 per cent of people have bet on a dog race or an ‘event’ such as a football match (Taking Part, May 2007).
21/05/2007
059/07
Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Alonso Sanchez Coello: Portrait of Don Diego, son of King Philip II of Spain. The bar will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep this extraordinary sixteenth-century painting in the United Kingdom.
15/05/2007
057/07
The UK’s Cultural Olympiad, which begins next year, should be the best there’s ever been, reconnecting culture and sport as the Ancient Greeks saw it, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell predicted today.
10/05/2007
055/07
More than nine out of ten adults in England have engaged in at least one form of cultural or sporting opportunity during the past twelve months, a new report reveals.
09/05/2007
054/07
John Armitt CBE has been appointed Chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the body charged with building the key venues, facilities and infrastructure for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
04/05/2007
03/05/2007
053/07
Culture Minister David Lammy has placed a temporary export bar on an 18th century Union flag, flown as Lord Howe’s command flag at the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794, the first naval clash between the British and French of the French Revolutionary Wars, celebrated as a great victory by the British.
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