Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is to sell one of his paintings to raise funds for London’s Royal Academy of Arts. The rocker-turned-artist has joined the likes of Tracy Emin, Mary Fedden and Ken Howard in donating his painting of Royal Ballet stars Carlos Acosta and Darcey Bussell to an upcoming auction in the British […]

MLL Telecom, which specialises in building and operating broadband wireless networks, today announced that it has been successful in last week’s Ofcom auction of radio spectrum licences. Other successful bidders include BT, Orange, T-Mobile, Arqiva and UK Broadband.
MLL Telecom has been awarded national spectrum licences in the 32 and 40 GHz bands. It will use […]

A pair of slippers worn by Sir Walter Scott is expected to fetch several thousand pounds at auction.
The famous writer’s footwear will go under the hammer at Edinburgh’s Shapes auctioneers on 1 March.
The slippers were gifted to Scott in 1830 after visitors to his Abbotsford home in the Borders were dismayed at the state of […]

Even as William Blake (1757-1827) lay on his deathbed he worked feverishly on his illustrations for Dante’s Inferno, one of the world’s greatest works of literature.
A scene from the Inferno, drawn by the visionary artist and poet, will go under the hammer in Bonhams sale of 18th and 19th Century British Watercolours and Drawings, on […]

Two very rare posters and a programme from what is the perhaps the most famous boxing match of all time will be offered for sale on the 27 February 2008 at Bonhams’ Sporting Memorabilia sale in Chester.
The posters, with estimates of £5,000 – 6,000 each, were produced to advertise the much-hyped match between heavyweight […]

At noon on Wednesday 19th March Tennants in Leyburn will host their Spring Book and Map Sale with over 340 lots of books covering a vast variety of subjects.
There are some first edition gems by Beatrix Potter including ‘The Tale of Two Bad Mice’, ‘The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes’ in its original dust jacket, ‘The […]

Lyon & Turnbull are to to sell the £350,000 Mowson Collection of East Anglian paintings at an auction on July 9th 2008 in Norwich.
Director of Lyon & Turnbull South and Paintings Specialist Mary Axon said “This will be one of the most important sales of East Anglian paintings in recent times, the Collection includes a […]