The money raised by this lottery has actually been divided out into several funds. There is one for Sport which is apparantly why Britain won so many medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Oh! of course it is!. There is one for the arts which is spent mainly on big Opera house extensions which a minority of people will go to. When it could have been spent on hundreds of smaller theatres. But the really interesting fund is that for millennium projects. This has been spent on parties with £100,000's of Fireworks and on several high profile buildings such as the millennium dome, the millennium bridge, the museum of pop in Sheffield, and the Earth Centre near Rotherham. Every one of these projects has been a disaster. The bridge still wobbles, is shut and will cost £5 million to fix. The dome has drawn 6 million visitors, but many did not pay the full price and 12 million visitors were projected to go. Every person who paid £20 to go in has been subsidised another £60. Both of the museums have made a loss and are likely to close.