Beatles museum to close

Hamburg's Beatles museum, which houses more that 1,000 artefacts about the Fab Four (actually the fab five when they were in Hamburg), is set to close at the end of June after losses of E3 million.

Folkert Koopmanns, boss of German promoters and festival organisers FKP Scorpio said that the local authority has failed to support the venture, and the museum was "condemned to fail" without public money to top up income from an average 50,000 visitors each year.