{"id":14661,"date":"2017-01-13T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14661"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:33:09","slug":"two-scottish-wwii-heritage-sites-win-hlf-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14661","title":{"rendered":"Two Scottish WWII heritage sites win HLF funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A boat that saved the lives of 600 stranded Allied troops at Dunkirk and a former prisoner of war camp will receive more than \u00a31m for restoration work from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the BBC reports.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Due to disrepair, the Skylark Nine sank in Loch Lomond in 2010 but has won funding of more than \u00a3420,000 and will become a floating museum. The restoration will act as a training programme for recovering drug addicts.<\/p>\n<p>And 11 former Nissen huts at the former Cultybraggan prisoner of war camp in Perthshire will be restored and converted into self-catering accommodation with a grant of nearly \u00a3640,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38315112\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full BBC story<\/a> and watch the news report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat that saved the lives of 600 stranded Allied troops at Dunkirk and a former prisoner of war camp will receive more than \u00a31m for restoration work from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the BBC reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14662,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions\/14662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}