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01/08/2014
Ten Coastal Towns To Benefit From Lottery Fund
A total of £8.5 million is to be shared between ten coastal towns, which will be used to repair storm-damaged areas and create new jobs.
Jubilee Pool in Penzance, Old Portsmouth's historic arches, and the South West Coastal Path are among the areas set to receive the government money, which is being made available from the Big Lottery's Coastal Community Fund.
The money is to be shared as such:
• Jubilee Pool, Penzance, Cornwall - £1.95m
• Historic arches, Old Portsmouth, Hampshire - £1.755m
• South West Coastal Path, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset - £999,000
• Historic Fruit Market, Kingston upon Hull - £800,000
• Waldringfield Flood Defence, Suffolk - £633,000
• Maltings Building, Wells-next-the-Sea, near Cromer, Norfolk - £610,000
• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Spurn Point - £498,000
• RSPB Nature Reserve, Bempton Cliffs, Humberside - £452,000
• Youth Hostels in Brighton, East Sussex, and Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire - £401,000
• Park View 4 U, near Lytham St Annes, Lancashire - £395,000
(MH/CD)
Jubilee Pool in Penzance, Old Portsmouth's historic arches, and the South West Coastal Path are among the areas set to receive the government money, which is being made available from the Big Lottery's Coastal Community Fund.
The money is to be shared as such:
• Jubilee Pool, Penzance, Cornwall - £1.95m
• Historic arches, Old Portsmouth, Hampshire - £1.755m
• South West Coastal Path, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset - £999,000
• Historic Fruit Market, Kingston upon Hull - £800,000
• Waldringfield Flood Defence, Suffolk - £633,000
• Maltings Building, Wells-next-the-Sea, near Cromer, Norfolk - £610,000
• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Spurn Point - £498,000
• RSPB Nature Reserve, Bempton Cliffs, Humberside - £452,000
• Youth Hostels in Brighton, East Sussex, and Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire - £401,000
• Park View 4 U, near Lytham St Annes, Lancashire - £395,000
(MH/CD)
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