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iccoventry	?100M TOURIST CENTRE WILL BE TRULY TITANIC THE man behind the Titanic Heritage Trust, based in Coventry, has announced ambitious plans for a ?100 million tourist centre dedicated to the doomed liner.Howard Nelson, founder of the trust, based at Coventry University Technology Park, in Puma Way, Parkside, said he was "very determined" to make the plans a reality. ...	13th September 2006
icCoventry	HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC RICHARD ALLEN has relived the tale behind his grandfather's desperate escape from the sinking Titanic.Boiler-room worker Ernest Allen was one of 705 people to survive the stricken liner's sinking on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 perished.His grandson Richard, of Greendale Road, Whoberley, Coventry, said his grandfather plunged off the ship's deck to make a daring escape.Richard, aged 48, said: "He waded through the water in the engine rooms and got up to the deck but the lifeboats were full....	20th January 2006
icCoventry	PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF TITANIC TITANIC enthusiast Howard Nelson has achieved a lifetime's ambition by setting up the first trust dedicated to the doomed liner in his land-locked home city of Coventry.The 60-year-old, of Allesley, Coventry, has opened the Titanic Heritage Trust, at Coventry University's Technology Park in Puma Way.The trust is aiming for charitable status by the end of the year and wants to protect the Titanic wreck site and artefacts and preserve its history. ...	9th January 2006