Film

So it begins: £45 million cut to London Film Centre

Darren Atwater | Friday 18 June, 2010 09:34

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The Department of Sport, Media, and Culture has decided that those last two parts of its name are superfluous and have cut £45 million from the planned London Film Centre, to be operated by the British Film Institute.

But they didn’t ignore the kids. A Night Less Ordinary, a programme encouraged love of theatre by providing half a million free tickets to people under the age of 26, was also cut, saving a princely £100,000.

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