Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find.

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0:00 Introduction 

3:18 Climate Change & UK Archaeology

7:49 Stoke Museums to Cut Curators!

18:27 Le Câtillon II Coin Hoard, Jersey

27:27 Negotiating a Price!

41:30 Effect on Local Museums

42:58 Shouldn’t We Also Sell Stuff?

1:00:27 How Can We Bring People ‘In’?

1:04:40 Why Don’t We Just Buy Archaeology?

1:06:02 Conclusions

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Link of the Week:

Climate Change threatening Buried UK Treasures:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60091485

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Links:

Stoke ditches curators for museums to become film locations:

https://www.artsindustry.co.uk/news/2762-stoke-turns-its-back-on-pottery-heritage-with-curator-redundancies

Statement: Stoke-on-Trent Museums:

https://www.stoke.gov.uk/news/article/994/statement_-_stoke-on-trent_museums

How to respond to the consultation

The full budget proposals are at: www.stoke.gov.uk/budget2022

People can give their views in the following ways: 

[email protected], twitter.com/sotcitycouncil

facebook.com/sotcitycouncil 

Or write to us at Budget 2022, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH.

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Fears Jersey Award Could Lead to Inflated Valuations Under Treasures Act:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2021/12/24/fears-jersey-award-could-lead-to-inflated-valuations-under-treasure-act/

Jersey: Did we just invent “Casino Metal Detecting”? :

https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode/947418

Experts in the UK tasked with valuing the record-breaking 2,000 year old Le Câtillon Coin Hoard… :

https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/insight-how-coin-hoard-payment-was-decided/

Ministers ‘frustrated’ by coin hoard payment delay:

https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/ministers-frustrated-coin-hoard-payment-delay/

Gov refuses to confirm payment to Coin Hoard finders:

https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/gov-refuses-confirm-coin-hoard-payment/

Valuation battles frustrates coin hoard sale:

https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/more-one-valuation-coin-hoard/

Gov overrules Jersey Heritage and top official with £4.25m coin hoard fee:

https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/concerns-raised-after-government-agrees-425m-coin-hoard/