Google emphatically denied on Sept. 20 that it is interested in bidding on 3G spectrum that the U.K. may put up for sale. Ofcom, the British telecom regulator, announced on Sept.19 it was considering a spectrum auction as early next year and press reports immediately circulated citing Google’s interest.
“I can tell you definitively it’s something […]

Two works by Francis Bacon are expected to go under the hammer for a combined £25million, Sotheby’s revealed yesterday.

Francis Bacon’s Self Portrait
The two paintings, Study For Bullfight No.1, 2nd Version, and Self Portrait, have been in a private collection for decades but will be put up for auction in New York in November.
Tobias Meyer, the […]

Nine council workers have lost their jobs for spending too long on the internet auction site eBay.
Three were sacked and six resigned after managers at Neath Port Talbot council found some staff were spending up to two hours a day on the website.
Union officials have blamed bosses for “putting temptation in their way” - by […]

Britain is facing another third generation (3G) mobile phone spectrum auction within two years, after the telecoms regulator Ofcom unveiled plans to take back some of Vodafone and 02’s slices of the airwaves and re-sell them.
The auction could come as early as 2009 although it would not be expected to fetch anything like as much […]

Dan Evans, 67, is to bang his gavel for the last time at the Seth Hughes & Son showroom in Wrexham.
The firm was started by his wife’s grandfather in 1875 and Mr Evans took over from his father-in-law, also called Seth Hughes, in 1969.
The most expensive item to go under the hammer at the firm […]

Ofcom plans to grab back a third of the mobile phone spectrum that Vodafone and O2 have been using in the UK for 22 years and auction it to at least three other companies, in a repeat of the dramatic 3G auction of the dot.com era.
The original mobile phone companies Vodafone and O2, formerly Cellnet, […]

Fairfield. U.S. based Copart (NASDAQ: CPRT) has recently expanded into the United Kingdom through its acquisition of Universal Salvage PLC, where it is working to build a network of facilities similar to its U.S. network, which allows it to pick up salvage vehicles within 24 hours