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Treasure finds up 12% last year
970 treasure cases and over 97,500 archaeological finds recorded in 2011
Number of unauthorised BECM disposals may never be known
Former director in dispute with trustees over 144 missing items
Further cuts to hit English museums
Arts council and national museum budgets cut over next two years
Cultural heritage to be included in European funding programme
Amendment follows petition by museum professionals
Ann Sumner resigns as director of Birmingham Museums Trust
Tim Knox appointed as next head of Fitzwilliam
Cambridge museums’ poetry project under fire
Poet laureate's scheme linking poets with Cambridge collections lambasted by academics
Acceptance in Lieu secures 51 objects
Scheme has saved £25m worth of treasures for the nation in two years