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ISSUE 1520 Saturday 24 July 1999

Saucy artist wanted for Dome posters, By David Millward

AN artist who can produce posters in the style of saucy seaside postcards is being sought for the Millennium Dome.

Organisers want to use the humour made famous by the late Leonard McGill for 10 bus shelter-size posters illustrating the environment. They will be used in the Living Island zone which, although depicting a traditional seaside resort, will enliven themes from domestic waste to global warming.

Tim Pyne, the designer of the zone, said: "We are trying our best to ensure that Living Island reflects British humour with all its saucy jokes and innuendo. We could have employed modern artists to recreate the style but we would prefer to involve the original artists themselves. These people are not easy to find, however, so we have launched a nationwide search."

Tickets for the Dome will be available on-line, said the New Millennium Experience Company yesterday. It expects to sell up to 1.2 million, 10 per cent of the total for the first year of operation, through its website when tickets go on the market on Sept 22.

The company presented its annual accounts yesterday and said that it had raised more than £160 million in sponsorship, £10 million more than its original target.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), July 24, 1999

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Old Git,

The Dome always sounds really boring as well as being a colossal waste of everyone's money.Much more interseting will be the new Millenium eco-complex in Cornwall. I saw that twit of a designer on TV.He did himself up in the Hugh Grant look !

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), July 24, 1999.

For their millennium posters, maybe they should give that Eduard Munch guy a call.

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), July 24, 1999.