Interpol alert! Museum admits famous Lipton Cup worth £500k was stolen… six months after it disappeared

A worldwide hunt is under way to find a historic trophy worth £500,000 which has been stolen from a flagship Scots museum.

An alert has been flashed to Interpol and art houses across the globe over the theft in Glasgow last year.

However, museum operator Glasgow Life has only now confirmed the loss of the gold Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy from its Riverside Museum, by the Clyde, amid concerns it could be lost forever.

Lipton is one of the city’s best-known entrepreneurs, emerging from abject poverty in the Gorbals to build an international tea and grocery empire worth billions of pounds in today’s

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