I follow the fortunes of Factum Arte with the utmost interest, not least because they are the people who have been involved in the bid to take over the Bell Foundry and to keep it as a working foundry. At the public Inquiry, Raycliff’s lawyer did everything in his power to pour cold water on their business plan, so I was pleased to see a piece in this morning’s Guardian by Jonathan Jones making clear how important their work is – key to the protection and preservation of artistic monuments round the world, from Egypt to Nigeria and Brazil, not to forget the Victoria and Albert Museum:-
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