At about 1.30am this morning (1 January) burglars broke through the glass roof of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, (the UK's oldest public museum, founded 1683) and stole the Museum's only Cezanne: the oil painting "Auvers-sur-Oise" dating from around 1880 (when Cezanne was living in the area). Nothing else was taken and though it has an estimated value of UK£3 million this is not the most valuable painting in the collection, so the speculation is that it has been stolen "to order" by intruders who knew exactly what they were looking for. The Museum reports that all security systems were functioning normally at the time and were not in any way affected by the Y2K computer "bug". A brief Press Association story is on the web site of "The Independent", http://www.independent.co.uk while the BBC news web site has a photograph and both audio and video stories: http://news.bbc.co.uk Patrick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html