Public embarrassment that became a moneyspinner
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Your support makes all the difference.It started life being dismissed as a New Labour vanity project and when it failed to entice the six million Britons who had been expected to go through its turnstiles, it was almost pushed into bankruptcy. But 12 years on, the reputation of Greenwich's Dome – or the O2 Arena, as it is now known, thanks to a £6m-a-year naming deal with Telefónica – has been transformed.
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