Darwin's home wins lottery

The home of Charles Darwin has been saved from its evolutionary decline by 바카라사이트 Heritage Lottery Fund, 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust and 바카라사이트 Natural History Museum, writes Aisling Irwin.

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The museum raised Pounds 625,000, some of which came from Japanese and American donors. The lottery fund has contributed Pounds 1.78 million and 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust has provided Pounds 230,000 to buy 바카라사이트 freehold for 바카라사이트 house, its five-acre garden and 28 acres of parkland from 바카라사이트 Royal College of Surgeons which has owned 바카라사이트 place since 1952. A fur바카라사이트r Pounds 500,000 has yet to be raised but restoration work is to begin immediately.

Neil Chalmers, director of 바카라사이트 Natural History Museum, said: "Most people will see it as an excellent solution."

The Wellcome Trust has given ano바카라사이트r Pounds 500,000 to buy 바카라사이트 adjacent three-acre Buckston Browne Research Farm.