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Priceless British Museum items stolen ‘may already be melted down’ expert warns

It is thought around 3,000 priceless items were taken from museum storeroom, ranging from 15th century BC to 19th century AD

The Independent UK

Education secretary defends ‘incredibly rude’ comments about the value of A-level results – as it happened

Gillian Keegan told Sky that employers ‘won’t ask you anything about your A-level grades in 10 years’ time’

The Guardian - UK

Stolen British Museum artefacts may have already been ‘melted down or sent abroad’, expert warns

Scotland Yard is investigating the incident but said no arrests have yet been made

Evening Standard

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British Museum sacks staff member after items vanish from collection

Treasures including jewellery and gems kept in a storeroom were found to be missing, stolen or damaged, the London museum said

The Guardian - UK

British Museum says staff member dismissed after items were found to be missing, stolen or damaged

The British Museum said a member of staff has been dismissed after items were found to be missing, stolen or damaged

The Independent UK

British Museum boss reveals items have been stolen as staff member dismissed

The matter is under investigation by the economic crime command of the Metropolitan Police.

The Independent UK

British Museum worker sacked after items found ‘stolen or damaged’

The matter is also under investigation by the economic crime command of the Metropolitan Police

The Independent UK

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British Museum staff sacked after 3,000-year-old artefacts go missing

Scotland Yard are investigating

Evening Standard

British Museum urged to remove BP’s name from lecture theatre

Over 80 public figures tell museum’s director it would send a ‘powerful message’ on fossil fuel sponsorship

The Guardian - UK

Khosrow Hassanzadeh obituary

Artist who applied the techniques of pop art to exploring Iranian life past and present

The Guardian - UK

British Museum director to step down next year after eight years in charge

Hartwig Fischer was appointed with a brief to develop a masterplan for badly needed renovation

The Guardian - UK

Hartwig Fischer to step down as British Museum director next year

He has been in the post since 2016.

The Independent UK

How the British Museum's new exhibition reveals China's Hidden Century through everyday lives

The face of the British Museum’s big summer show, China’s Hidden Century, is that of an elderly woman wearing jade earrings, dressed in a blue robe with ornate gold embroidery decorating its collar.

The Conversation

Loot, intransigence, and the darkening of a colonial blot

The return of cultural artefacts is a moral obligation which the West owes to its former colonies

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Daily Record

Edinburgh landmark named most 'overcrowded' tourist destination in Europe

The most "overcrowded" and "busy" tourist destinations in Europe have been revealed in new research, and a popular and historic Edinburgh spot has topped the list.

Evening Standard

‘Share the Parthenon marbles’, mayor Sadiq Khan tells the British Museum

‘There’s a discussion to share some of this stuff’ Khan told a Greek newspaper

The Guardian - UK

‘Translation is an art’: why translators are battling for recognition

Like any author, translators want to receive credit for their work instead of being treated as an afterthought

The Conversation

Controversy over poems at British Museum shows urgent need for more recognition for translators

The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin appeared in the museum’s exhibition, China’s Hidden Century, without consent.

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Evening Standard

British Museum staff to stage six-day strike next month

The move comes amid a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs in the civil service

The Guardian - UK

British Museum offers to pay translator after plagiarism row

Yilin Wang had translated passages from a Chinese revolutionary which were used in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

The Guardian - UK

Translator alleges work on Chinese radical ‘plagiarised’ in British Museum show

Exclusive: Yilin Wang claims she did not receive any credit for translations of Qiu Jin’s work in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

Daily Mirror

'Curse' of the Titanic explained as five people are trapped on missing tourist submarine

Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based businessman and one of the richest men in the world, was on a trip to see the wreckage of the Titanic when their vessel went missing

The Week

China’s hidden century review: an ‘enthralling’ show at the British Museum

In 1796, when the sixth emperor acceded, the Qing presided over a third of the world’s population and one of the most prosperous empires in history. In 1912, the 11th and last emperor abdicated, aged 12, ending 2,000 years of dynastic rule, and paving the way for the modern Chinese…

The Guardian - UK

British Museum ends BP sponsorship deal after 27 years

Campaigners hail split as a ‘massive victory’ , which marks a retreat of the fossil fuel giant from the British arts world

The Conversation

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