Belfast’s crumbling city centre Assembly Rooms are in stellar company after joining a prestigious international watch list of treasured monuments – which includes the Moon.

The biennial list is intended to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

Sir Keir was responding to criticism of the Government’s proposed repeal of legislation that had put a stop to such civil ...