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Council services: Keep our museum open, say children
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
28 February 2008
Councillors who voted to close a popular children's museum in Southwark, London, were confronted with an angry group of young children protesting outside an assembly meeting last week.
The Livesey Museum, the first children's museum in Britain, which attracts 18,000 visitors per year and has won several awards, will close at the end of February, as Southwark Council tries to cut costs by £35m over three years. Council leader Nick Stanton delayed the start of the assembly meeting to talk to the protestors gathered outside. Mr Stanton said, 'We faced a stark choice between museums, libraries and leisure centres. The simple fact is that keeping...
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