Regeneration

Profile | ‘This story gives people a reason to come to the region and see its beauty’

As a festival launches in Tees Valley to celebrate the bicentenary of the first public rail journey, the event's director Niccy Hallifax tells us about the railway's role in regeneration, revolution – and even the advent of universal time

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The Box will revive Plymouth’s civic pride

Regeneration needs imagination and ambition, says Victoria Pomery

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Collaboration has forged Blackburn’s cultural identity

The town’s creative spirit didn’t stop when the cotton mills closed, says Rebecca Johnson

Bradford 2025: Building on the City of Culture legacy

The festival can act as a catalyst for cultural regeneration – as long as stakeholders are in it for the long haul. Caroline Parry reports

Science and Media Museum reopens ahead of Bradford’s year as City of Culture

Twelve-month programme of cultural events and exhibitions launches this weekend

New £100m visitor attraction to open in Belfast

Belfast Stories expected to completed by 2030

Capital museum projects face uncertainty as government mulls £100m cut

Funding for National Museums Liverpool, National Railway Museum and V&A Dundee could be withdrawn

Heritage Fund awards £30m in grants as it prepares for 30th birthday

Windrush port and Crystal Palace dinosaurs among the heritage attractions to receive lottery boost

Wish you were here | Is life always sunny for seaside museums?

At the height of the summer holiday season, John Holt dodges dive-bombing seagulls to talk to coastal museums about leaking roofs, fossil hunting and the grand old tradition of appropriating items from hotel bedrooms

Consultation on Dundee Eden Project underway

A planning application is expected this autumn

100% of ACE uplift to be spent outside London under Levelling Up agenda

But government warned its spending plans won't be enough to meet white paper's ambitions

Culture can ‘supercharge’ northern recovery, say cross-party MPs

Report calls for investment in culture to aid economic growth and levelling up agenda