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Earlier this month the Vindolanda Trust won funding of £4 million towards the cost of refurbishing their two existing museums at the fort of Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. The new extended museum space will enable the trust to secure a loan of the Vindolanda Tablets from the British Museum – but it will also allow it to put many other objects on display, some of them on public view for the first time.

If I told you a story about the eighth king of Rome, the clever ones among you might notice that something doesn't quite add up. Your minds might start whirring, scanning the memory for facts about early Roman history... way back when, before the Republic even. And then you remember: of course! Ancient Rome was a city built on seven hills... and it had seven kings. Seven: no more no less. You might well be thinking: 'Anyone who tries to tell me about the eighth king is either a joker or just sadly misinformed!' Well, in that case the joke is on you, because I have learned from reliable sources that the eighth king of Rome is alive, well and living in one of Rome's more exclusive leafy suburbs.