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The UK’s number one on-line car registration number plate dealer Carreg have gained experience [...]

A piece of Scotland’s motoring history is to go on sale at an auction of collectors’ automobiles in London.
The 107-year-old Argyll car is one of the earliest models built at the firm’s first factory in Bridgeton, Glasgow.
The car, which has a five horse-power engine and a top speed of 25mph, is expected to fetch as [...]

A bicycle which was ridden by Princess Diana when she was a child is due to be auctioned next month.
The Tracker bike will be sold by auctioneers Keys at Aylsham, Norfolk, on 18 May.
The auction house says the Princess of Wales, who died 10 years ago, used the bike when she lived in Althorp, Northamptonshire, [...]

Austria’s Dorotheum, is determined to maintain its individuality as it celebrates its 300th birthday this year.
An auction house, pawn office and retail service rolled into one, the Dorotheum, founded in April 1707 by Emperor Joseph I, still closes sales with a bell rather than a hammer, unlike its more famous competitors with their multi-million sales.
“We [...]

AN eighteenth century Letterkenny Corps shoulder belt plate was sold for 1,200 euro at an auction of historical artefacts in Dublin this week.
The 7cm X 4.8cm brass plate was sold at James Adam & Sons and Mealy’s Auctioneers Independence auction of more than 400 lots comprising previously unseen documents of the utmost historical importance charting [...]

Chris Martin is auctioning off his favourite Dolce & Gabbana jacket to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Africa.
The Yellow singer’s black jacket will be one of a number of celebrity memorabilia items going under the hammer as part of a 10-day eBay auction to aid Oxfam.
Sir Elton John and actress Sienna Miller have also [...]

Neil Banwell brought the Sea Harrier for under £10,000 on the auction website.
The jet, which led the first attack on Port Stanley airfield in May 1982, can’t fly as it came without its £250,000 engine.
But father-of-three Neil, 39, plans to restore it to its former glory and pick up a cheap used engine from aircraft [...]

Irish regulators have agreed a number of measures to further open up the country’s power market.
Ireland has finally decided to do away with its cumbersome system of virtual power plant auctions and revenue regulation, by requiring the state-owned incumbent, ESB, to sell off many of its generation assets. Furthermore, Irish regulators have announced that no [...]

Nicholas Kyprianou of Thornton, who created false service histories to make the mileage appear genuine, was prosecuted by Leicestershire County Council’s Trading Standards and was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court.
Kyprianou was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for supplying six second-hand cars, all of which had false mileage readings.
Over 300,000 miles were removed from the [...]

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Hundreds of assets from the world’s oldest international rugby stadium, Lansdowne Road, are to be sold by online auction.
Following the approval of planning permission in March 2007 to build a new stadium on the site of Lansdowne Road, the Irish Rugby Football Union has announced that hundreds of items of memorabilia and [...]