Senior figures from politics, education and the arts leapt to defend free admission to Britain’s most famous museums and galleries after a senior Tory suggested that charges could be reintroduced.

The campaigners hailed the success of free access to museums, which has attracted an extra 30 million people to the nation’s great artistic and cultural collections since admission charges were scrapped six years ago. It followed a campaign by The Independent to end charges.

Read full article (The Independent, June 18, 2007)

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Berliners’ fascination with its bunkers and hidden wartime structures appears to know no bounds. The most famous, the underground complex from which a crazed Hitler tried to direct the end of the war, has just been “reconstructed” down to the last door handle and window frame in a computer-animated graphic.

Historians have praised the virtual tour of the fortress, which is based on state security records of the 1970s, as the truest existing impression of the bunker. The real bunker, close to Potsdamer Platz, was filled in, buried and built over.

Read article in Der Spiegel (June 19, 2007)
Read article in The Guardian (June 19, 2007)