Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.

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At length, the train begins to pass clusters of houses, building up gradually into the centre of Bergen, where it comes to rest under the vast cylindrical glass roof of the main railway station.

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Celebrations in Manchester include a huge fireworks display at Castlefield, while up to 10, 000 people will watch a parade and the lighting of a beacon at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.

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In 1998 Donna Keogh, 17, went missing from the same area of Middlesbrough town centre and Vicky Glass, 21, was last seen in the town in 2000.

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The centre, with its gleaming glass shells, is the most visible symbol of the cultural renaissance that will usher in a new era of creativity, revitalize the downtown and return Kansas City to the dynamic, creative and worldly place it once was.

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The high-tech glass pavilion, built in just over a fortnight on open ground in front of the convention centre where the meeting is to be held, is powered by photovoltaic panels which cover the whole of its sloping south-facing wall.

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