sentences:  On 5 March 1999 the borough council accepted the bid from the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust on the condition that their applications for funding from English Heritage and the National Lottery were successful, but on 5 April 1999 the council closed the Dome for reasons of health and safety.After eighty-eight years the Dome was the longest continuously running cinema in United Kingdom and the only full-time cinema in Worthing.The Heritage Lottery Fund approved the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust's application in early October.