Mr and Mrs Arnold Dreefholt were delighted to find themselves the winners of this year's Survey Raffle. Mr and Mrs Dreefholt said the museum had been on their 'must-see' list for quite some years, but commitments in their home city of Buenos Aires has prevented them from visiting before now.  Mrs Dreefholt, a keen breeder of miniature donkeys, was especially taken with the dairy herd of Stott's Marvels in the Great Court and enjoyed a delicious milk-based beverage in the Palm Court Tea Rooms with her lunch.

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Found objects:
= bauble 1: 5.55pm, Friday 19 May 2017, Stansted Airport;

= bauble 2: 1.12pm, Saturday 11 February 2017, Bowden Market, Adelaide;

= bauble 3: 9.42am, Monday 21 October 2013, Harold Road, north London;

= bauble 4: 11.04am, Thursday 19 January 2012, Maya Angelou Court, Bailey Close, east London;

= bauble 5: 10.06pm Friday 23 October 2016, Charteris Road, north London;

= gold beads: 1.37pm, Saturday 22 July 2017, Somerset House, central London;
= pearl: 14:55, Saturday 13 October 2018, Place du Jeu de Balle, Marolles, Brussels.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is now conducting this year's survey on the quality of visitors' experiences at the museum. Visitors' views on the ever-popular exhibition and events programme are greatly valued, and staff wearing blue tabards are currently stationed at key points around the museum. They are enthusiastically seeking Visitor Experiential Encounters. Everyone is encouraged to stop and chat. For those participating in the survey, there's the chance to win a prize in the annual Survey Raffle!

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Found objects:

= knitted child’s toy: 6.37pm, Friday 3 August 2018, Paddington Station, Paddington, west London;
= metal & plastic clasp: 1.38pm, Tuesday 18 September 2018, women’s changing rooms, Highbury Pool, north London.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects regrets to announce it has had no option but to call on the services of a private investigation agency. The British Museum has not proved as cooperative as hoped in the ongoing enquiries into the jam smears on the package found in the MMFO shop, and also at the Montague Place entrance to the British Museum. The agency's efforts have so far found additional evidence of the jam inside the British Museum itself, in the Egyptology Galleries. The British Museum was unavailable for comment earlier today.

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Found objects:
= Florival bottle top: 2.11pm, Monday 15 October 2018, Place Saint-Job, Uccle, Brussels;

= key 1: 1.12 pm, Wednesday 11 September 2019, Bomber Command Memorial, Green Park, central London;

= key 2: 11am, Saturday 30 March 2013, Homerton Railway Station, west-bound platform, east London;

= key 3: 10.01am, Thursday 31 May 2012, Roman Way, north London;

= key 4: 9.27pm, Thursday 25 August 2016, foot of the escalators to the Piccadilly Line, Leicester Square Tube Station, London;

= key 5: 10.36am, Monday 8 February, 2016, Woolston Close, east London.

Horatio Pont, Head of MMFO Global Merchandising, angrily spoke out last night after accusations of fraudulent behaviour appeared on social media. The allegations centred on the mysterious return of the Empress's Tears, the fourteenth-century Byzantine earring. Staff in the museum shop were also accused of collusion in the fraud. As Mr Pont explained to reporters, "My staff do not know who left the package. They simply don't have time to watch everything that goes on in the shop. There's been a surge in till activity since we started retailing the AFAC in kit form." In response to questions, Mr Pont said the MMFO is continuing to seek assistance from the British Museum to identify the traces of jam found at the site. The jam is believed to be connected to the earlier theft of the Byzantine earring.

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Found object:

= plastic seahorse: Eurostar platform, Gare du Nord, Paris.