{"id":673680,"date":"2026-11-03T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673680\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:42:09","slug":"valuable-bust-found-in-shed-could-still-be-sold-overseas-says-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673680\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuable bust &#8216;found in shed&#8217; could still be sold overseas, says council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Highland Council&#8217;s rush to monetise a common good asset has completely broken the system,&#8221; a spokesperson for the museum said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The council has created a nightmare scenario where the community is punished for the council&#8217;s own unethical sales process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokesperson added: &#8220;We are expected to raise more than \u00a33m to buy back our own property, while being barred from the very grant funds built to preserve national treasures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trustees are urging Scottish ministers to intervene and have launched an online crowdfunding campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Highland Council said it had followed all relevant legal, governance and decision-making processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it had carried out a statutory public consultation, adding that &#8220;a majority of respondents&#8221; had been in favour of the sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council added that it had made an application to a sheriff court seeking authorisation to sell the bust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said no objections were received during that process and the sheriff approved the proposed sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Highland Council&#8217;s rush to monetise a common good asset has completely broken the system,&#8221; a spokesperson for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-673680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}