London’s Millennium Dome has been ailing – critics have been harsh and the crowds are staying away in droves. So the British government has sacked the Dome’s director and replaced her with a Mouseketeer – a top executive from EuroDisney. – Sunday Times (UK)
- DEPARTURE follows a series of shouting matches between Dome company executives and ministers ordered by the British Prime Minister to rescue the failing project and make it work. Relations between the company and the Government were said to have become untenable, as the Dome has turned into a major embarrassment for Tony Blair’s Labour Party. – The Telegraph (UK)
- Just how did such a project get built? And who’s to blame? (take credit?) – BBC