Southampton City Council have abandoned their plan to sell three paintings to help pay for a new museum about the Titanic. They had been bombarded by the Tate, the Museums Association, the MLA and probably HLF as well, though they are being more discreet, but it was the word of the Charity Commission that did for the plan. The £15 costs of the new development will be met ‘through other means’, it has been decided, and so the Southampton Save Our Collection Group to celebrate at their party on March 17, but this story will come again. It may not be in Southampton, but the local workers’ union Unison has already called for Newcastle to sell some of the £75m worth of art it owns to avoid cutting jobs in the on-coming Armageddon.