A tiny key which could have saved the Titanic will go under auction in Britain next month.
The key to the ship’s crow’s nest binocular store survived the 1912 sinking of the vessel which killed 1,522 people because it was not on board.
Instead, it was with David Blair, the Titanic’s original second officer who was transferred […]

A YOUNG mum who was jailed for six months for duping people out of more than £2,000 in an internet auction scam has been released after just two weeks behind bars.
Haley McTaggart, 24, took money from eight users of ebay for concert tickets she never provided.
Magistrates at Whitehaven jailed her on August 10, saying it […]

Auctioneer Adam Day said: “We are not back to normality but being able to have animals here and to send them to slaughter is definitely a positive step.”
Mr Day also said: “We are asking farmers to let us know exactly what animals they are bringing as it is important we don’t have too many here. […]

Nazi-era board games have been sold at a memorabilia auction in London.
German children played the games during World War II, winning points by destroying Allied cities and ships. The games sold for between $1,600 and $5,200 each at the Aug. 23 auction at Mullock’s auction house.
“We had propaganda in Britain during the war, too, but […]

The next DVLA auction will be on Sept 5th to 7th 2007, and will be held at Dormy House, Broadway, Worcestershire. The PersonallyYours.co.uk bidding services costs just £250 and all the work is done for the client. http://www.personallyyours.co.uk/_auction/default.htm

Auction marts, farm sales and agricultural shows are operating again in Scotland after foot-and-mouth measures have been eased further.
Restrictions were brought in last month after an outbreak of the disease in Surrey.
The Scottish Executive decided to relax the restrictions after the EU lifted the export ban on UK meat and dairy products last week.
Livestock dealers […]

An 18th Century hip flask which once belonged to Robert Burns has sold for about 10-times its expected price at auction in Edinburgh.
It had been forecast to fetch between £600 and £800 but instead went under the hammer for £7,200.
The flask is believed to have been left by Burns at Hunthill House, near Jedburgh, in […]