Evening Post

LANCASHIRE

lep.co.uk TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009 42p

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Let there be
lights... an
amazing display
OVER-
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CURRYING
ENTHUSIASTIC:
A Blackpool
steward
(orange jacket)
is accidentally
knocked over
as PNE equalise
FAVOUR...
in last night’s
derby

A STORM AT THE SEASIDE

Irvine apologises as steward is hurt in goal celebrations - See Sport Starts Page 17

£18M MUSEUM
BILLOUTRAGE
Anger as full public cost of football site is revealed
ALMOST £18m of public
money has been splashed
out on Preston’s National
Football Museum before
the decision to move it to
Manchester, the Evening
by Matthew Squires been spent on a doomed facility.
That includes:
matthew.squires@lep.co.uk
● £15m in start-up costs, including a
£9.3m grant from the Heritage Lot-
It has already been revealed that tery Fund – although some of that is
an additional £8m of pub- made up of ‘in-kind’ (non-
lic money will be needed to
Save cash) costs.
on buying the collection itself.
● £100,000 a year from the Depart-
ment for Culture, Media and Sport
(DCMS) to support the facility be-
tween 2003 and 2008, rising to
£103,000 in 2008/9 and £105,000 in
2009/10.

Post can reveal today.
Community leaders and a for-
mer museum curator have brand-
ed it “obscene” that artefacts will
be shipped out of Preston follow-
ing the huge outlay.
ur
ensure the Urbis building ● It also includes contribu- ● £300,000 a year from the Football
in Manchester is ready to tions from a number of or- Foundation’s Football Stadia Im-
display the items. ganisations and sponsors, provement Fund (FSIF) to support
But the decision to move including £10,000 from the facility between 2003 and 2008,
many of the items to Urbis Museum Preston Council. The PFA rising to £303,000 in 2008/9.
means millions of pounds also contributed, but the ● £25,000 each from Lancashire
of start-up and upkeep county council did not.
costs between 2001 and now have Less than a million pounds was spent ● Turn to Page 5

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