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Museum staff say they have been left “devastated” after drawings worth £500,000 were stolen and destroyed. Police launched a probe after a silver Ford Transit was stolen from Heron Square in Livingston on November 19. ‌

It was later found burnt out with parts stripped - and inside the vehicle were 1,742 Second World War-era technical drawings that belonged to the Royal Engineers Museum, based in Kent. The drawings were brought to Scotland to be digitised by a third-party company and the pieces included a collection relating to the design and construction of the D-Day Mulberry harbours, railways and bridging. ‌

Museum director Rebecca Nash is hopeful some items may have escaped destruction, and said the museum was told it appears to have been a “random act of cri

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