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Then Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit, prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis celebrate the Tories winning a third term in government on 11 June 1987 (Picture: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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King Charles III receives His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, King of the Ashanti Kingdom, during an audience at Buckingham Palace in May.

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Undated handout photo issued by National Museums Scotland of conservator Bethan Bryan with an "incredibly rare" piece of Roman armour from the second century which has been reconstructed from dozens of fragments. Photo: Duncan McGlynn/National Museums Scotland/PA Wire

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Installation view of The Trembling Museum at The Hunterian, Glasgow PIC: Fred Pedersen

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A centaur carries off a women in this carving taken from the Parthenon in Athens and currently in the British Museum in London (Picture: Ian Johnston)

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Sir Mark Jones inside the Reading Room of the British Museum in London. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

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LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 8: Police restrict access outside the British Museum on August 8, 2023 in London, England. The Metropolitan Police said they were called to Museum Street at 10AM after a reported stabbing. A man was subsequently taken to the hospital with a stab wound and another was arrested on suspicion of Grievous Bodily Harm. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

British Museum stabbing: Man injured and another arrested

Duncan Dornan, head of museums and collections for Glasgow Life, accepting the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 award for the Burrell Collection from Grayson Perry at the British Museum. Picture: Hydar Dewachi/Art Fund

Glasgow's Burrell Collection crowned Museum of the Year

A section of the Parthenon Marbles in London's British Museum

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Replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet (photo: National Trust Images Phil Morley)

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Irving Finkel PIC: Dave Cherry

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Sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens have been kept in the British Museum in London for more than 200 years (Picture: Matthew Fearn/PA)

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Sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens have been kept in the British Museum in London for more than 200 years (Picture: Matthew Fearn/PA)

Brexit: Why UK should give ‘Elgin Marbles’ back to Greece as a gift – leader com...

Sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens have been kept in the British Museum in London for more than 200 years (Picture: Matthew Fearn/PA)

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A pen and ink drawing of the Keir Hill, Gargunnock, Stirlingshire, by Christian Maclagan, who is often described as Scotland's first female archaeologist. PIC: Creative Commons.

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The British Museum. Picture: Ham/CC 3.0/ creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

British Museum 'hands back looted Iraqi artefacts' dating from 2000BC

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The Lewis Chessmen. Picture: TSPL

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Space for more than 100 diners is being created in the second-floor restaurant of Dundee's new V&A museum, which will be transformed into a bar in the evening.

First look at Dundee V&A's waterfront restaurant and cafe

Ruth Davidson repeated her warning from October 2017 that the UK is "too London-centric". Picture: AFP/Getty Images

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Workers put up scaffolding on the Palace of Westminster (Picture: AFP/Getty)

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Arguments over where the Lewis chessmen should be displayed were settled by compromise. A similar approach may be needed for the latest find, in Galloway.

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Video: the enduring mystery of the Lewis chessmen

Government urged to return Elgin Marbles to Greece

3D image of Iron Age forts. Picture: Contributed

3D Visualisation of Iron Age forts to go on display in Dundee

Prime Minister David Cameron has urged voters across the UK to keep their eyes open during the referendum, as the result will greatly impact the UK. Picture: John Devlin

David Cameron: Brexit could cause '˜disintegration' of UK

The National Museum of Scotland is the country's most popular museum. Picture: Julie Bull

Joe Wilson: In defence of '˜annoying' museum visitors

The National Museum of Scotland in 2011. It will undergo another major refurbishment that will see a piazza built at the front of the museum entrance. Picture: Jane Barlow

Joe Wilson: Welcoming National Museum of Scotland's piazza with open arms

On this day in 1989, Ronald Reagan made a farewell address to Americaat the end of his presidency. Picture: AP

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The atrium at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

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A visitor to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum at a jack Vettriano exhibition. Picture: Robert Perry

Joe Wilson: Why Scottish museums should remain free-to-enter

Rab C Nesbitt, played by Gregor Fisher, might feature in a top 100 compilation of the funniest TV shows, but superlatives are not the stuff of Phil Normans TV history. Picture: BBC

Aidan Smith: History of TV puts comic heroes in their place

National Museum of Scotland. Picture: Dan Phillips

National treasures are shared locally

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, home to Salvador Dali's painting, Christ of St John of the Cross. Picture: Contributed

Two Scots museums in TripAdvisor’s UK top 10

Three of the pieces that are being returned to Uig. Picture: Hemedia

Lewis Chessmen pieces returned to Uig

Skye is among the top three sites in Scotland, with Skara Brae and Edinburgh Castle taking the other top places. Picture: Getty

11 Scottish gems among world’s ‘top 500 places’
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President Mugabe and wife Grace raised issue of tribal skulls at Heroes' Day rally this week. Picture: AFP/Getty

Robert Mugabe demands UK return tribal skulls

Some of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's mosaics will be reinstalled in his home city by Edinburgh University students and researchers. Picture: Wikimedia

Eduardo Paolozzi Tube mosaics moving to Edinburgh

The decorated silver Gundestrup cauldron from Denmark. Picture: Contributed

Rare Celtic treasures to go on display

Part of the ruins of the city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert, which it is feared face the same fate as sculptures at Nineveh and Nimrud. Picture: Getty

Tiffany Jenkins: Civilisation’s cradle not yet lost

Greece has campaigned for the return of the marbles for years. Picture: Getty

Greece rules out Elgin Marbles legal action

Marble statue of a discus-thrower by Myron. Roman copy of a bronze Greek original of the 5th century BC. Picture: Contributed

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Game of marbles

The Elgin marbles. Picture: PA

Comment: A shrine to cultural imperialism

One of the Elgin Marbles has been loaned to a museum in Russia. Picture: PA

Greek ire over Elgin Marbles loan to Russia

The British Museum has loaned the Ilissos sculpture, one of the Elgin Marbles, to the Hermitage Museum in Russia. Picture: AP

Comment: Elgin marbles are not political pawns

A cast iron statue of Wenchang is just one of many artefacts never seen before outside China. Picture: Neil Hanna

Exhibition review: Ming: The Golden Empire, Edinburgh

A prized Ming vase is going on display in Scotland on the first stop of a UK tour Picture: PA

Ming vase joins Burrell Collection

Roman coins will be among the exhibits. Picture: British Museum

Dundee to host major Roman art exhibition

The sun rises through the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Picture: Getty

Tiffany Jenkins: Parthenon marbles should stay

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