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Article: Flag fen digs in for [pounds sterling]1m grant.
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- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2006
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THE team behind the most important bronze age site in Europe are making a bid for a [pounds sterling]1 million grant.
Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre in Fengate, Peterborough, relies solely on grants and donations to keep up its important archaeological work and growing tourist appeal.
Today, general manager Georgia Butters and her team are hoping to be given the Heritage Lottery Fund cash to make the centre and surrounding 20-acre park - which welcomed more than 14,000 visitors last year - more people friendly.
Ms Butters said the centre had launched a city-wide consultation project to find out exactly what residents want to see introduced.
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