Lake District to bid for World Heritage status

Name: Lake District to bid for World Heritage status
Uploaded: 2014-01-10T08:43:04.000Z
Duration: 1 min 56 s
Description: The Lake District will be put forward as the UK's next nomination for World Heritage status, the Government announces.

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The Lake District will be put forward as the UK's next nomination for World Heritage status, the Government has announced.

Culture minister Ed Vaizey said it would be invited to prepare a nomination to be submitted to Unesco in 2016.

A decision on the Lake District bid is expected to be made in 2017.

Cumbria

10 January 2014