I am indebted to Basiliscoe Mercury for these news items:

Firepower! Moving from Woolwich to Wiltshire
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/01032016-firepower-museum-to-leave-london-home?dm_i=2VBX,6J5Y,27M8ZE,K48W,1

Cost of closing museums
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news-analysis/01032016-communities-counting-the-cost-of-museum-closures?dm_i=2VBX,6J5Y,27M8ZE,K48W,1 

The following two items have been included since HBSA is very much about the preservation of Heritage – Arms in our case. Whilst these are about heritage on a slightly larger scale, the principle is interesting to note, particularly since HBSA has cited ISIS fundamentalist destruction of cultural and heritage sites in recent presentations to government.

Crimes against culture
http://artdaily.com/news/85436/Why-are-Timbuktu-s-shrines-revered-and-who-destroyed-them-#.VtP8RbArGUk

First trial for war crimes - Cultural destruction at the Hague
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/28/iccs-first-cultural-destruction-trial-to-open-in-the-hague 

Chris Smith
Hon Sec.