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In August, last year, the museum announced up to 2,000 objects from its storerooms were missing, stolen or damaged.

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.

A search has been launched for the families of two women killed 90 years ago in the Jigsaw Murders, after their skulls were rediscovered in a university storeroom.

The problem isn't a new one - as far back as 1998, thieves broke into a storeroom and took nine tonnes of cheddar from a family-run farm in Somerset.

“My classroom assistant actually puts on a mask now before she’ll go into the storeroom; that’s how bad the mould smell is.”