Margaret Hodge news

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has formally withdrawn his support for a Thomas Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge across the River Thames; bringing a likely end ... More

Two major proposed projects from the pen of British designer Thomas Heatherwick have suffered significant setbacks, and now supporters of Pier 55 in New York ... More

London mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered a review into Thomas Heatherwick’s proposed £185m Garden Bridge project, which will investigate whether taxpayers have had value for ... More

British MPs have criticised the Royal Household for mismanaging its finances, calling for Buckingham Palace to be opened to paying visitors more frequently to help ... More

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has raised concerns over "significant increases" in security costs relating to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. ... More

A collection of more than 1,500 Anglo-Saxon artefacts - discovered in July 2009 by metal detectorist Terry Herbert - has been saved for the nation. ... More

Culture minister Margaret Hodge has announced that Chatham Historic Dockyard has been handed £550,000 towards a project to revitalise the Kent attraction. The museum and ... More

Four cities - Birmingham, Derry/Londonderry, Norwich and Sheffield - have been confirmed as the shortlisted bidders to be named as the inaugural UK City of ... More

Abbey Road Studios in St. John's Wood, London have been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the recommendation ... More

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has awarded grants of £100,000 to each of The Jewish Museum and The Wiener Library - both in ... More

The government has launched a competition to find more cultural and natural heritage places which are fit to become future UK World Heritage Sites. It ... More

Culture minister Margaret Hodge has revealed that 14 candidates have submitted bids as part of a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)-led competition to ... More

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has achieved its target of encouraging 3,000 individual museums, libraries and archives to sign the Learning Revolution pledge. ... More

In a move worth nearly £20m, paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney, plus other cultural works, were saved for the nation last year ... More

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed that three new areas - Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay - have entered the race ... More

Margaret Hodge has returned to her former ministerial position at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), following a period of compassionate leave. Hodge ... More

This year's annual National Conference of Visitor Attractions (VAC 08) is to be held on 8 October at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in ... More

Culture and tourism minister Margaret Hodge is in hot water after claiming that UK hotels are expensive and saying that she "worries about their quality". ... More