It may have been a decision that the museum later came to regret.

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"Sadly we do not have the funding necessary to keep employees on, so it is with great regret that we place ourselves in a position where we will have to make redundant later today the vast majority of the workforce, " a representative of administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers said.

BBC: 'Vast majority' of LDV jobs to go