PPF could dissolve historic Wedgwood collection

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The Wedgwood Museum could see its historic collection of antique pottery sold off by the Pension Protection Fund in a bid to pay off a £134m scheme liability, an MP warns.

Last week, MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central Tristram Hunt told Parliament that the PPF could seek to dissolve the Staffordshire museum's 250 year-old collection to claw back the shortfall of the Wedgw...

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