A model of Antony Gormley's Angel of the North sculpture becomes the first £1m object to be valued on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow.

A group of eight "smartly dressed" people are suspected of stealing a valuable vase from a Cornish antiques shop, say police.

Antiques worth more than £1,000 are stolen from a shop as thieves smash a window to gain access.

Four guns, ammunition and some valuable antiques are stolen from a farm in Greater Manchester.

An antique dealer is bailed by police after being questioned over the theft of a £15m first edition of Shakespeare's works.

An elderly man has items including an antique watch stolen during a distraction burglary in Cumbria.

Volunteers from art industry are trained by the police to spot looted Afghan antiques.

The entire contents of a mansion once owned by an antiques dealer sell for more than £2m at auction.

Burglars steal antique watches and jewellery worth £13,000 from a village in Leicestershire.

A 52-year-old woman has gone on trial accused of fraudulently obtaining paintings, jewellery and antique furniture worth thousands of pounds.

The problems of creating a digital replica of one ancient instrument have been overcome by a Scottish academic.

A thief flees an antiques fair with a bag containing £80,000 worth of rings, necklaces, earrings and diamonds.

Antique silver worth thousands of pounds is stolen from a National Trust house in Cornwall.

The arts and antiques market is being bolstered during the credit crunch by high-value works, says Rics.

Antiques worth about £5,000 are stolen from an Isle of Man guest house during this year's TT festival, police say.

Meet the people willing to fight to the bitter end to keep their old lamp-posts/cobbles/trees/railings.

Antique furniture at a Benedictine monastery in Gloucestershire goes under the hammer.

Iraq's antiquities department takes delivery of 11 ancient ceremonial seals looted after the US-led invasion in 2003.

The new London mayor, Boris Johnson, has been accused of lacking experience and political nous, but he has always boasted one qualification for government - a good grasp of Latin and Greek. So just what are the lessons he will have learned from antiquity?

Two men accused of posing as antique dealers and tricking elderly Londoners are acquitted.