Two London museums are to receive government funding as part of a culture department funding award. The London Museum of Water and Steam in Brentford, west London, has been given £2.6m while the Foundling Museum in Camden, north-west London, will get £320,000.

London Museum has announced that it has acquired Banksy's Piranhas artwork which appeared in a police sentry box in the city last summer.

Museums, galleries and other cultural venues in England are to receive £270m funding to stay afloat and fix their crumbling buildings, the government has said. The money will go to attractions "in urgent need of financial support to keep them up and running,

Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK. The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost 8