The Dome cost £2m a week to keep open
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Tony Blair tried to keep the Millennium Dome open after the end of 2000 despite warnings about the cost, the chairman of the Dome Management Company says.
David James had told the Millennium Commission it would cost £2m a week to keep open, even if people kept coming.
Mr James had managed to salvage some £25m of the £628m of lottery money laid out and the Commission was determined to keep hold of this money, he said.
Since the Dome closed as the Millennium Experience it has stayed mainly empty.
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