Parishioners at two churches in East Anglia have taken on America's museum establishment by demanding the return of three priceless tomb brasses stolen from the churches' flagstone floors in the 19th century.
Worshippers at Brundish, in Suffolk, and Brinkley, in Cambridgeshire, were delighted to be told the long lost brasses had been discovered in the vaults of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Delighted, that is, until the American curators refused to give them back.