DCMS restarts search for a new V&A chair

Ministers have had to restart the process of recruiting a new chair for the V&A Museum, according to a report from Sky News.

It claims that Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has had to restart the search for a successor to Sir Nicholas Coleridge after the original frontrunner, Samir Shah, accepted the opportunity to Chair the BBC.

The original recruitment opened last April, with interviews scheduled for early July. Shah was named the government's choice for the new BBC Chairman in December.

Coleridge, who has been appointed Chair of Historic Royal Palaces, has been replaced on an interim basis by Nigel Webb.