The government's attempts to sell the Millennium Dome have suffered a new setback after the Duke of Westminster's property company dropped its bid for the attraction. Grosvenor Estate Holdings and Stanhope have pulled out of a consortium that had been tipped to take the Dome off the government's hands. Reports that a new deadline for the sale has been ordered by government were denied by a spokesperson at English Partnerships, the Dome's regeneration management agency: We are still in market testing; there is no confirmed deadline. The most serious bidder is thought to be The Wellcome Trust, the charity that wants to turn the Dome into a biomedical research centre. The government was forced to abandon a two-year bidding round in February after ending talks with the Legacy consortium. New speculation has centred on a possibility of the government giving the Dome to New York to conceal the salvage operation at the World Trade Centre site. English Partnerships were not prepared to comment on the proposal.
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