Stolen

A 6ft high peacock sculpture by artist Geoffrey Dashwood has been stolen from a garden in the New Forest.

A $160m (£136m) masterpiece by Dutch-American abstract-impressionist painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) that had been stolen from a US museum 30 years ago has been discovered in an antiques shop.

The theft of a 19th century postbox in Asthall Leigh in west Oxfordshire earlier this year has led local councillors to fear criminals are targeting specific postboxes to sell on for hundreds of pounds.

Three Francis Bacon artworks stolen in Madrid in 2015 have been recovered by Spanish police near Barcelona.

The UK government plans to renew the Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009 to extend beyond its 2019 end to ensure the law remains indefinitely.

An important glazed Islamic calligraphic tile stolen in Uzbekistan is to be returned to the country after it was discovered for sale in a London gallery.

A dealer is on trial in Newport Crown Court charged with 11 counts of fraud and three of handling stolen goods.

Four Chinese jade vessels have sold for 10 times their estimate after being stolen more than 12 years ago.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating claims of a £3m theft from art fair Masterpiece London.

Police are appealing to the trade to help locate jewellery stolen in Shropshire.

A West Sussex robbery has resulted in the loss of more than £200,000 of antique jewellery, handbags and other valuables.

An American museum has doubled its reward to $10m to find artworks stolen 25 years ago.

US police and a New Orleans dealer have appealed to the trade to help find a stolen Asprey & Co clock.

Police are appealing to the trade to help find a number of bronze statues that were stolen from an antiques dealer in Bath.

JK Rowling and the West Midlands Police have issued an appeal to find a stolen handwritten Harry Potter prequel.

Thieves made away with £600,000 of antiques during a raid on a gallery in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

More than one hundred antiques, including a significant amount of jewellery, were stolen from a Liverpool dealer.