Raise the Titanic

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Hoping to cash in on the notoriety of the Titanic, Southampton City Council is planning to sell works from its collection to raise money for a new 15m [pounds sterling] Sea City Museum, which is to open in 2012 with a centenary exhibition about the Belfast-built ship which sailed once--and only once--from Southampton. The Council hopes that the art sale, which has been championed by the local paper, would initially raise 5m [pounds sterling] in order to match the amount that the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has promised towards the new attraction, although a statement from the HLF points out the absurdity of the Conservative-run council's proposals: 'We would not normally expect the …