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				In the Press Time for the Dome The Guardian, Wednesday December 8, 1999 A rare sneak preview suggests the Greenwich big top, despite everything, could be just what Britain needs. Viagra, life jacket and baby spoon chosen to represent 'spirit' of the millennium The Independent, December 15, 1999 Bulletproof life-jackets, emergency shelters and heat-activated baby spoons were added yesterday to the list of official millennium products, chosen to represent the best of British innovation. "Each product is a symbol of Britain's finest qualities – creativity, inspiration, hard work, imagination," said Tony Blair after visiting the Millennium Dome yesterday. Queues, crushes and no champagne The Independent, January 2, 2000 One amazing night was what the organisers promised, and what they delivered – a night of such amazing disorganisation that by the time they got to Greenwich, thousands of people who had looked forward to being guests at the Party of the Millennium were wishing they'd stayed at home. The shape of things to come The Independent, January 2, 2000 "We don't believe in miracles here," reads one of the jokey signs in the Work exhibit at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich. "We rely on them." For yesterday's public opening of the new attraction, the organisers could have done with some divine intervention as a bevy of technical and logistical glitches threatened to disrupt operations on the first "people's day" at the Dome. Dome row blazes on as queues blamed on press The Independent, January 5, 2000 Jennie Page, the £150,00 a year Millennium Dome supremo, was having to justify her salary and her organisational powers yesterday as anger mounted over the fiascos that have soured the Dome's first days. Falconer admits Dome problems The Independent, January 6, 2000 The Government has conceded that there were "mistakes" at the Dome and pledged to listen to the public's suggestions for improvement. But Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the minister for the Dome, writes in today's Independent that the problems should not obscure the "heroic achievement" of completing the Dome on time and on budget. Dome's failings: sponsors join body of critics The Independent, January 7, 2000 The Millennium Dome took a further battering last night when sponsors, led by Boots the chemist, denounced the disorganisation and delays experienced by visitors. Empty vision The Guardian, January 9, 2000 Tony Blair said that he intended the Millennium Dome to be the first paragraph of his next manifesto for re-election. We suspect - we hope - that he has spent his holiday in Portugal doing some hasty redrafting. The politics of the Dome News Unlimited, January 10, 2000 Some on the right would like it to fail. Why York should be the capital of England The Guardian, January 12, 2000 As Jack Straw warns of the dark forces of nationalism, singer Billy Bragg says it's high time England had its own devolved parliament - outside London. Dome's hi-tech toys fail to stand the pace The Guardian, January 15, 2000 Barely two weeks after it opened its doors, many of the Millennium Dome's interactive games and computer displays have broken down or are not working properly. It's unignorable The Dome exerts a firm hold on visitors, for all the complaints about its pointlessness News Unlimited, January 15, 2000 A magazine article of 30 years ago famously asked "What is Princess Margaret for?" People are now asking the same about the Dome - a much fairer question. Blairs Bestes: Die Inhalte des Millennium Dome Großbritannien hat nichts zu verlieren und alles zu verkaufen Lisa Haskel und Armin Medosch Telepolis, January 25, 2000 BBC: The Dome: Trouble at the Big Top Dossier "The Dome, trouble at the big top" is the story behind the construction of the Millennium Dome. TOP
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