the Millennium Dome containing an exhibition to celebrate the third millennium. 5 February 2000: Chief executive Jennie Page sacked and replaced by Pierre-Yves Gerbeau. 26 July 2000: Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee publishes adverse report on Dome's management. 7 November 2000: Thieves break into the diamond exhibit during opening hours but are foiled by waiting police. Four men are jailed for the attempted robbery on 18 February 2002. 9 November 2000: National Audit Office publishes report blaming unrealistic attendance targets for the Dome's financial problems. 14 November 2000: Michael Heseltine (MP for Henley), the Dome's original political supporter, states "I have seen the inside story, and of course, with hindsight, all of us would do it differently". 31 December 2000: Dome closed to the public, having attracted just over six million visitors. The initial projected figure was twelve million. 27 February 2001 – 2 March 2001: One Amazing Auction Sale: Four-day public auction with 17,000 lots of Dome/NMEC items, managed by auctioneer Henry Butcher. 18 December 2001: Announcement of sale of site to Meridian Delta Ltd, who planned to turn it into a 20,000-seat sports and entertainment venue. Houses and offices to be built on the surrounding land, subject to the consent of the London Borough of Greenwich. 6 December 2003: opening of Winter Wonderland. 25 May 2005: Anschutz Entertainment Group sells the naming rights to the former Millennium Dome to O2 plc, a British mobile phone company. 24 June 2007: The O2 opens, with a concert by Bon Jovi. In popular culture Within the foundations of the Dome in 1998, a time capsule was buried by Katy Hill and Richard Bacon, two of the then-current presenters of the long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter. The capsule was due to be opened in 2050, but was accidentally unearthed and damaged in 2017 during construction work. It was originally intended to be reburied once it had been repaired, but was instead opened and its contents taken on a tour of the UK. It was subsequently stored in the National Archives until 2050 alongside a new Diamond Time Capsule celebrating the show's 60th anniversary. The Dome was featured in a chase sequence of the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, culminating in Bond rolling down the roof of the Dome. Since its construction in 1999, it has been a prominent feature in the title sequence of the