Art Charity Warning

Britain's museums are in crisis, according to one of the country's leading art charities, which has released research showing that historic institutions are being neglected by cash-strapped local authorities. According to the Art Fund, a wave of museums from the north of Scotland to the south-eastern market town of St Albans have already closed or are planning to do so. Two key London museums are in trouble and others in Bury St Edmunds, Havant, Blackburn, Macclesfield and Nuneaton have recently decided to shut. Staff in many more face redundancy. For the full story - click the title Irish Art