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Setback for Cutty Sark

An extra £15m to restore the historic Cutty Sark is still needed, following a fire which wrecked the 19th-century tea clipper. The Cutty Sark Trust has raised £20m but still needed another £5m before the fire in a Greenwich dry dock six months ago. The timescale for reopening has been put back another year from November 2009.
Read entire article at History Today