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• POLITICS

  SOME DEVELOPERS DELIBERATELY ABUSE NPPF SAY MPS

  In a conclusion which will come as about as much a surprise to heritage and countryside campaigners as discovering the religious persuasion...

• FUNDING CUTS

  THEN THE STAFFODSHIRE HOARD, NOW 18% CUTS

  When a group of the most important finds from the Staffordshire Hoard went on display at Birmingham Museum in 2009 an astonishing ...

• EDITORIAL

  OSBORNE ROADS PLAN ENDANGERS “THE ARCHERS”

  In a little noticed paragraph in the Autumn Statement Chancellor George Osborne announced that the Government would be fully funding the Borchester...

• MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY

  INDEPENDENT MONITOR MAY BE VICTORY 1744 CONDITION

  Heritage Minister Ed Vaizey has told Parliament that independent monitoring of the controversial salvage of HMS Victory 1744 may be made a...

• PLANNING

  ARE PORT MEADOW BLOCKS HEADING FOR THE CHOP?

  Oxford City Council and the Oxford University are coming under increasing pressure from the “Save Port Meadow Campaign” ahead of the 19...

• MUSEUM ETHICS

  MARBLEOUS DIPLOMACY? BM LENDS PARTHENON SCULPTURE

  At the height of the[previous?] Cold War the most obvious tool of international diplomacy were Giant Pandas which were loaned or given...

• EDITORIAL

  HERITAGE MUST FORCE DEBATE OSBORNE WANTS TO AVOID

  We may or may not be back on “the Road to Wigan Pier” as BBC Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith suggested in...

• FUNDING CUTS

  EDUCATION BATTLE WON BUT IWM LIBRARY STILL AT RISK

  Trade Union Prospect has welcomed a partial victory in its campaign to prevent damaging cuts at the Imperial War Museum Group.  Faced...