内容摘要：Ms O'Neill said items ranged from Victorian lead soldiers through to Roman tiles.

Ms O'Neill said items ranged from Victorian lead soldiers through to Roman tiles.

Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director, said: "This rare and significant sculpture should be on public display in the UK now and for generations to come."Every museum should have the power to secure landmark works of art but in today's challenging funding climate they simply cannot compete with the prices demanded on the open market."

She added: "We applaud The Hepworth Wakefield for the huge ambition of their bid to bring this Hepworth home."The UK's drug safety watchdog is to open a new "digital hub" in West Yorkshire.The site, to be located in Leeds city centre, would focus on digital delivery, software development and data science, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

The MHRA regulates new medicines, healthcare products and healthcare technologies for patients to use.Lawrence Tallon, MHRA chief executive, said opening the new site in the city was aimed at "strengthening our ability to collaborate with partners across the north of England".

There had been a "huge growth" in healthcare technologies driven by changes in software and AI which were going to revolutionise the way the NHS worked, and the new Leeds hub would help regulate those technologies, Mr Tallon said.

Leeds was chosen for the new hub as it was home to over 44,000 tech professionals and about 11,000 students studying tech-related subjects, according to the MHRA.It warned that the US was at risk from rising inflation, something that Trump repeatedly promised would fall during his presidential campaign.

Prior to the release of the OECD report on Tuesday, Trump wrote on social media: "Because of Tariffs, our Economy is BOOMING!"However, the most recent official data showed the US economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.2% in the first three months of this year, the first contraction since 2022.

China says the US has "severely violated" their trade truce and that it will take strong measures to defend its interests.China's Ministry of Commerce said Washington has "seriously undermined" the agreement reached during talks in Geneva last month, when both countries lowered tariffs on goods imported from each other.