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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Restoration: Controversy

Sunday September 14, 2003
Over the past few weeks, The BBC – the UK's main TV station – has run a competition to save endangered buildings: Restoration. Thirty were featured with ten being voted into a final which finished only hours ago. One building was selected, by a public vote, to receive nearly £3.5million (over $5.5million)...but controversy has ensued. The winner was Victoria Baths in Manchester, a building where the Restoration fund would repair only a tiny amount. What's more, it was owned by one of the UK's richest councils and they allowed it to get into such disrepair. None of the other nine finalists had access to similiar funding, and almost all would have been completed by the prize. There was a feeling Manchester’s government should have been made to repair its own mistakes…

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