内容摘要：Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on German-US relations at the Brookings Institute, believes Merz's ability to push the negotiations along is limited, given that the EU as an institution has taken the lead on those talks.

Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on German-US relations at the Brookings Institute, believes Merz's ability to push the negotiations along is limited, given that the EU as an institution has taken the lead on those talks.

Archaeologists have put out a plea for volunteers to help sort through thousands of historical items in a city's museum.Led by Cotswold Archaeology, the Store to Store project involves sorting, reboxing and consolidating archaeological records, artefacts and documentary and photographic evidence held by Gloucester Museum.

Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project aims to ensure the long-term preservation of the items.Hazel O'Neill, from Cotswold Archaeology, who is leading the project, said: "We've been going for about a month and we've found some really lovely things."Ms O'Neill said items ranged from Victorian lead soldiers through to Roman tiles.

"It's interesting to see what archaeologists did 40, 50, 60 years ago and what they thought was important," she said."It's lovely to look at it again and repackage it so it's available for the people of Gloucester and Gloucestershire," she added.

Volunteers must be over the age of 16 and they will support Cotswold Archaeology staff at the Archaeology Centre in Eastgate Shopping Centre.

Between April and November 2024 visitors to Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire were invited to stitch names of women they felt should be celebrated on to a textile display called Virtuous Woman."The game was being played right to the very end, but to cross the Valley of Death in aerospace is very hard."

What was the atmosphere like in those last days as the administrators moved in?"It was pretty grim, we were all called into the lecture theatre and the managing director gave a speech about how the board 'had tried everything'. Then came the unpleasant experience of handing over passes and getting personal items. It was definitely a bad day at the office."

This bad day was too much for some. "A few people were in tears. A lot of them were shocked and upset because they'd hoped we could pull it off right up to the end."It was galling for Mr Varvill "because we were turning it around with an improved engine. Just as we were getting close to succeeding we failed. That's a uniquely British characteristic."