More than 100,000 sheep will be sold at auction marts throughout Cumbria this week – the highest figure since before the foot and mouth crisis.On one day alone, 22,500 animals will come under the auctioneer’s hammer in Britain’s largest sale of north of England mule ewe lambs at Lazonby Mart.Auctioneers are expecting buyers from all […]

Fans of comedian and magician Tommy Cooper are to have the chance to own one of his trademark fezzes.
The distinctive headgear, worn by the man himself, was going under the hammer at Kendal Auction Rooms on Tuesday.
It belongs to a Blackpool woman whose husband ran a menswear shop close to the local theatre and opera […]

eBay UK said it will soon be launching a feature called Business Identification that will let buyers know they are buying from a business seller. The feature will let business sellers identify themselves as such on View Item Pages and Member Profiles.
eBay UK will hold a workshop about the new feature on September 28 on […]

Auctioning4u, the UK’s first and fastest growing chain of eBay drop off shops, has moved operations into a 12,000 ft² warehouse space in North Acton.
The new facility, located at 5-7 Park Royal Road, London W3 6XA, will not only allow Auctioning4u to expand the number of stores and drop off locations but will […]

A host of A-list celebrities from film, music and sport have donated items to UK-based charity Marine Connection to help raise funds for dolphin and whale conservation work. Signed items from celebrities, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, David Bowie and sporting idols Sir Geoff Hurst and Michael Schumacher and the winning […]

A Massachusetts company on Monday plans to launch a search site and toolbar that will alert Internet users when they are visiting Web sites that are fraudulent or should not be trusted.
The TrustWatch Search site and TrustWatch Toolbar, both provided free from Needham, Mass.-based GeoTrust, are […]

The original manuscript of JOHN LENNON’s hit song GIVE PEACE A CHANCE is to be sold at a London auction house in November (05).
The late BEATLE composed the track on 1 June 1969 during a staged honeymoon ‘bed-in’ for world peace at a Montreal, Canada, hotel with his second wife YOKO ONO, and […]