Department for Culture Media and Sport
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31 December 2009
Live music performances for 100 people or less will no longer need to be licensed, under proposals announced today by Licensing Minister Gerry Sutcliffe.
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23 December 2009
Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Samuel Palmer, The Shearers. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom.
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22 December 2009
Swimmers at public pools across England will enjoy brand-new and revamped facilities in 2010 – thanks to a new wave of investment from the Government’s £140m free swimming initiative that has so far seen young people and senior citizens take more than ten million free swims.
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18 December 2009
Better consumer protection and a formal industry-led co-regulatory system will be introduced for the first time as common standards for video-on-demand services are adopted across Europe.
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18 December 2009
Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a collection of typescripts from contemporary dramatisations of the works of Thomas Hardy. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the collection in the United Kingdom.
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17 December 2009
A nationwide survey shows that public support for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 remains high, with confidence that the UK will stage a successful Games growing to 79 per cent from 76 per cent last year.
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16 December 2009
More than 600 new jobs in the cultural, creative and sport sectors were announced by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw today, in a range of projects aimed at getting young people out of unemployment and onto the first rung of the career ladder.
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16 December 2009
Vintage dresses, a naval explorer’s journal, a rare musical manuscript and a regulator clock are some of the outstanding cultural objects which have recently been saved for the nation instead of being exported abroad.
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15 December 2009
A fast track Bill to restore public protections around the supply and classification of age-rated films and video games is published today.
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15 December 2009
England’s 2018 World Cup bid reached its latest milestone today as the Government signed off the guarantees required by FIFA, Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe announced.
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