LITTLE-KNOWN maritime portraits by famous Edinburgh artist Sir Henry Raeburn have been saved for the nation after being bought by Historic Scotland.
The paintings were bought for a “significant” but undisclosed sum from the Incorporation of Masters and Mariners, based in Trinity House, the Kirkgate, Leith.
Of the seven paintings, the most significant is of Napoleonic war […]

SHOCKED engineering workers only found out their jobs were being axed when they read it on the internet.Staff were alarmed to see company machinery for sale on an auction website.And when they confronted fat cat boss John Horsler he gave them just a day’s notice the firm was closing and no redundancy cash.One angry worker […]

A tool for comparing eBay auction prices against those offered by online shops has been released by a British company, Buyertools.
The company’s Pricepirates software is a free download that will not store any personal information from the user.
This comparison tool searches the price lists of thousands of online stores in the US, the UK and […]

National Grid, the British power company, is competing with Consolidated Edison of the US to pay as much as $US7 billion ($9.5 billion) to take control of KeySpan, the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern US.
According to people familiar with the matter, National Grid and ConEd, which is based in New York, have […]

Nearly two thirds of residents (62%) in the Norfolk town are registered eBay traders - up from 44% last year.
The upsurge reflects the national rise in the number of people listed as users of the website.
This is due to the website`s growing popularity as a means of buying everyday goods, a spokesman said.
Today`s announcement follows […]

Police are continuing to seize cars off the street at the rate of ten a day under powers given to them last year.
Officers can seize vehicles if they are being driven without insurance or by someone without an appropriate driving licence.
Since August, Hertfordshire Constabulary has impounded 2,056 vehicles, 1,234 of which have been crushed.
This figure […]

A Scottish man has put his ‘globe-trotting’ mother’s ashes up for auction in a bid to fulfil her last wishes.
Glen Beaton from Inverness insists his mother loved to travel and has appealed for people across the globe to buy a portion of her ashes to scatter them at far flung destinations.
The 44-year-old pledged to pay […]