A signed photo of Marilyn Monroe sold at auction for £9,000 in a collection of 1,000 images that together raised more than £100,000.
The items were a small part of a collection of more than 10,000 autographs owned by Alan Robinson, who spent 30 years waiting outside London theatres and attending awards ceremonies and auctions to [...]

The main structure of the largest straw bale building in the UK is nearing completion near Stansted airport. Pioneers of straw bale building in the UK, amazonails of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, are now completing the straw bale walls of the 1,100 sq m (11,800 sq ft)auction room and offices.
The design, with straw bales infilling [...]

A 157-year-old whisky was sold for more than 29,000 pounds on Friday, setting what is thought to be a world record auction price for a bottle of Scotch.
The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear’s auctioneers in Glasgow for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder, beating the distillery [...]

Liverpool writer Carla Lane is selling original scripts of her TV series on eBay to keep her struggling animal sanctuary open.
The writer, who wrote hit series The Liver Birds and Bread, said the sanctuary would not be able to continue unless she raised more money.
Animal rights activist Mrs Lane, who famously returned her OBE to [...]

An auction of hundreds of spare parts from the defunct Concorde supersonic jet began Friday in southern France, as organizers quickly pulled five smoke detectors out of the sale amid concerns about radiation risk.
The withdrawals signaled a bumpy start to the four-day auction aimed to drum up funds for a planned park and museum in [...]

AN 18-CARAT gold watch one of Wales’ most famous adventurers used to pay an African chief went under the hammer yesterday for more than four times the asking price.
Best known for his adventures in Africa and the quip “Dr Livingstone, I presume”, Henry Morton Stanley bought the watch before travelling as part of an expedition [...]

A four-day auction of spare Concorde parts is due to begin in Toulouse, south west France.
The auction is to raise funds for an aeronautical museum for the French city, with the centrepiece one of the two supersonic jets it owns.
Items on sale include a 1.2 ton landing gear, a Mach-monitoring speedometer and a windshield.
Concorde was [...]

Enthusiastic bidders packed the saleroom at Bonhams in New Bond Street with the aim of buying a piece of history from Fortnum & Masons - one of London’s great iconic institutions.
Prices for paintings, prints, chandeliers, wine, furniture and decorative shop furnishings and fittings soared way over estimate in this one off sale. The entire sale [...]

Bonhams the auctioneers has been appointed by The Fairmont Hotels & Resorts to hold an auction of selected contents from The Savoy Hotel, London.
Three thousand items of furniture from the hotel will be sold by Bonhams, the international fine art auctioneers, on 18 – 20 December 2007 at the hotel, just days after it closes [...]

Aeroflot Russian Airlines is not currently interested in buying the Italian state’s 49.9 pct stake in Alitalia SpA, said Lev Koshliakov, Aeroflot deputy director general for communications.
Koshliakov said his reported comments earlier this week on a 1 bln usd offer for Alitalia referred to Aeroflot’s interest in May in acquiring Alitalia in an unsuccessful government [...]