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Evening Standard
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Barney Davis

Plan to move the Millennium Dome to Swindon revealed in National Archive memo

New Labour ministers struggling to work out what to do with the Millennium Dome were offered the chance to relocate the giant landmark to Swindon, according to newly released cabinet memos.

Tony Blair’s Labour government were desperate to offload the £800 million structure built on the Greenwich peninsula, regarded at the time as a costly white elephant with the Millennium Experience only bringing in half the projected 12 million visitors.

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