The Goldsmiths’ Company is delighted to announce that Brigadier Ed Butler CBE DSO has taken office as Prime Warden, in succession to Richard Reid. Now a highly respected specialist in strategic risk and resilience, Ed spent 24 years serving in the British Army, achieving his career ambition at the age of 38 when he took command of 22 SAS (the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment).

The King’s Remembrancer, Senior Master Cook of the Kings’ Bench Division of the High Court, has today pronounced a positive verdict on the 6,432 coins submitted in February by The Royal Mint at the Trial of the Pyx – one of the United Kingdom’s oldest judicial processes.

Heritage Crafts has announced today (Tuesday 13 May 2025) that the silver allied trades have been added to its Red List of Endangered Crafts for the first time – the bi-annual report listing traditional craft skills in the UK at risk of disappearing.