National Lottery (Ireland) to receive lottery funding. On 3 October 2013, Minister Howlin announced that the government had agreed to sell the National Lottery licence for €405 million to Premier Lotteries Ireland, a consortium comprising An Post, An Post pension funds, and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (owner of the Camelot Group, operators of the UK National Lottery). Dermot Griffin, head of the An Post National Lottery Company since 2006, was appointed chief executive of Premier Lotteries Ireland. Other existing senior management were also retained. Executives from the Camelot Group, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and An Post were appointed to the board
UK Web Archiving Consortium UK Web Archiving Consortium The UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) was a consortium of six leading UK institutions working collaboratively on a pilot operation archiving selected UK websites. UKWAC consisted of the British Library, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the National Archives (UK), the National Library of Wales, the National Library of Scotland, and the Wellcome Library. Consortium members started to archive selected websites in 2005 using PANDAS software, developed by the National Library of Australia (once appropriate permissions have been obtained from website owners) relevant to their interests. For example, the Wellcome Library focussed on collecting medical sites,