Robert Bargery News Today

Looking around London on the eve of the millennium, it would have been difficult to think that the UK government had an adviser on architectural design. The 1990s had been a dismal decade. Yet such a body existed in the quaintly named Royal Fine Art Commission, refounded in 1924. The original Commission had been created

For more than 150 years, the logo has been a picture of a dead lion being swarmed by bees, a reference to the biblical story Samson from the Old Testament.

The controversial new packaging has swapped the image of a dead lion being swarmed by bees with a friendly looking lion and a single bee.

Lyle's Golden Syrup has axed the rotting lion image surrounded by bees on its squeezy bottles and replaced it with a friendly lion face.

The new logo replaces the rather macabre image of a rotting lion with a friendly looking lion and a single bee - irritating fans of the British favourite.

An award of £5.2 million from UK charity, the Hamish Ogston Foundation to Historic Environment Scotland (HES) will fund a new traditional skills training programme, giving a much-needed boost to the specialist skills needed to conserve and maintain Scotland’s historic built environment.

Hamish Ogston’s donation will fund up to 2,700 apprenticeships in crafts to preserve historic buildings

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Bargery, executive director of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust - said Britains traditional painted pub signs were markers of local history.

The largest ever Commonwealth heritage project has been launched to help protect threatened historic buildings and create training opportunities for people across the Commonwealth.

The National Trust and Hamish Ogston Foundation have announced a new partnership programme that will train apprentices in key heritage skills.