Props and costumes from the film of the musical Phantom of the Opera are to be put up for sale in an internet auction.
Around 250 items from the movie, which was released last year, will be placed on auction site eBay by Really Useful Films on 26 November.
The costumes include a crystal gown worn by […]

An AC Cobra with Le Mans history is up for sale in H&H’s February 2006 sale. Registered 39 PH, the car competed in the 1963 24-hour race where it won the GT III category and came seventh overall. Its sale price is estimated at £700,000-£800,000.
Also up for auction is an EMKA Aston designed by Len […]

A teenager who conned eBay users out of more than £8,000 while on bail for similar offending has escaped a custodial sentence.
Phillip Shortman, 18, of Cwmbran, South Wales, faced being locked up after pleading guilty to four counts of obtaining property by deception.
Cardiff Crown Court heard how Shortman conned eBay users by pretending to have […]

A souvenir from a BBC Northern Ireland journalist’s dive to the final resting place of the Titanic has raised £590 for Children in Need.
Environment correspondent Mike McKimm trailed three polystyrene cups in a net outside the submersible which took him down 12,850 feet to the wreckage in the North Atlantic.
The huge water pressure caused […]

A Kent pensioner is auctioning a rare first edition Winnie the Pooh book to raise money for charity.
Bill Williamson, 81, from Tunbridge Wells, is selling four old books by Sussex author A.A. Milne including the Winnie the Pooh book published in 1926.
A similar copy was recently put on sale for more than £5,800.
But Mrs Williamson […]

A previously unknown painting by John Constable, discovered in a Japanese collector’s store, has failed to make its reserve at auction.
The oil sketch of Dedham Vale in Suffolk, where John Constable grew up, was expected to fetch between £80,000 and £120,000 at auction at Sotheby’s.
The landscape, completed in about 1810, failed to meet even the […]

6th December - Christie’s Sale of Exceptional Motor Cars & Automobilia at The Jack Barclay Showroom, Vauxhall, London SW8.
The Sale commences at 19.00.
For further information visit www.christies.com