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. [...]

Two classes will be held at the National College of Ireland, beginning with the Selling Seminar on September 4th followed by the “Beyond the Basics” course on September 13th.
The Beyond the Basics course instructs sellers on how to start or grow an eBay-based business, with details on how to choose the right listing format, create [...]

A residential farm on 23ac at Jessfield, Ballingarry, Co Tipperary, is up for auction on Wednesday, September 12.
Callan-based auctioneers, Grace Real Estate Alliance, are guiding it at €650,000. The residence and the lands are offered for sale in one lot.
The holding includes an attractive traditional farmhouse, outbuildings and lands. The farm is located on the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

he derelict Abbey Cinema in Wicklow town has been sold, local auctioneer, Anne Lait, confirmed this week.
The cinema, which closed over five years ago, was put up for sale by tender which attracted a ‘healthy interested’ from perspective buyers.
The identity of the buyer remains a mystery, with Ms Lait revealing only that it was not [...]

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 [...]

The painting titled Monkseaton Beach with a view towards Whitley Bay and the Spanish City, dated 1920, is to be sold by city auctioneers Anderson and Garland as part of its three-day Country House Sale on September 4, 5 and 6.
The firm’s picture specialist John Anderson, said: “We don’t often get examples of Blakelock’s work [...]