Law, crime and regulation

An Anglo-Saxon mount, discovered by a metal detectorist in Norfolk and sold at Noonans, has been blocked from export giving an institution the chance to raise £1000 to keep in the UK.

A Rembrandt portrait sold privately via Christie’s has been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a museum in the UK can raise the £71.7m needed to keep it in the country.

Thames Valley Police have charged two men in connection with a burglary at Station Mill Antiques, Chipping Norton.

Technology companies developing AI have been buying up vast quantities of books in order to train computer models but in the process some books have been destroyed.

A string of thefts from antiques shops in the Thames Valley, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire has led to fears more traders could be targeted.

Antique silver items have been stolen from a stately home in Warwickshire and police and the National Trust are calling for help to recover them.

A new code of conduct launched by UNESCO has been met with concern from the art market.

US President Donald Trump has introduced a new set of trading tariffs that will impact the UK and 60 trading partners.

Two people are appealing for help from the antiques trade and auctioneers after a lost brooch and a theft of rings occurred this month.

Last month The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026 came into force, updating the 2017 rules.

Thieves broke into The Lalique Museum in the early hours of July 5 and stole 27 items of jewellery valued in the region of €4.5m.

Two 500,000-year-old flint handaxes discovered in Norfolk have been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the funds to keep them in the country.