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Asbestos will be removed, the stage will be given a new safety curtain and repairs will be made to the building as part of a Liverpool City Council investment, which will see the venue close until September.

(IN DANISH) Five district orchestras in the west of the country will receive an additional one million kroner (£120k) funding each by 2021, which will be taken from Copenhagen Philharmonic, the capital’s symphony orchestra.

The Creative Society’s ‘Creative Job Studio’, to be based at Somerset House in London, will focus on unemployed people aged 18 – 24 and support them to break into the creative sector.

Social enterprise BH Live, which runs events and hospitality services at venues in the south of England, has been selected to run the new Fairfield Halls when it reopens as a "cultural hub" for Croydon. More than half of the programming will be "community-based" and the company has made a commitment to "inspire and develop new artistic talent".

Entrepreneur Peter Dawe and festival organiser Mark Ringer are currently in discussion with the owners of the Broadway Theatre in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, about taking over the venue.

Leading playwrights and composers have been brought together for a two-year project, supported by six-figure funding through the Genesis Foundation, to address a “lack of seriousness” about musicals in the UK and to provide a “seedbed” for new work.

(IN POLISH) The Second World War and Westerplatte museums will combine to create a new Museum of World War II, Culture Minister Piotr Gliński has announced. The news follows an intervention by the Polish Supreme Administrative Court to overrule a lower court’s decision to block the merger.