The UK Film Heritage Group, a consortium of archive and UK screen organisations led by the British Film Institute, has been awarded a capital investment of ?25 million ($50m) by the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It will fund activities driven by a national archive strategy in the UK that embraces regional archives as well as the national collections. The move follows three plus years of work by the consortium demonstrating the public value of archive film and convincing Government that the UK's film collections need greater investment. The BFI says "it is probably the biggest ever single investment" in the National Archive and represents "a huge vote of confidence by the UK Government". The money will contribute towards stabilizing the national collection and building a digital infrastructure to make content available from archival collections across the UK. Web: www.bfi.org.ukStory: FOOTAGE.info NEWS SERVICE