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Arnold’s garage housed the reconstructed Spitfire F Mk 22 PK519 fuselage. (Instagram/Dominic Winter Auctioneers) For more than 20 years, a garage in the British town of Newport Pagnell housed the partly rebuilt body of a historic Spitfire aircraft. Its owner, Peter Arnold, had spent decades collecting aircraft remains and putting together pieces of aviation history….

A painting of flowers by former British prime minister Winston Churchill has sold for £716,800 at Christie’s in London, with all of the hammer-price proceeds set to support a charity programme promoting arts in public spaces. The painting, Amaryllis Lily, was sold during Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale on October 21, 2026….

Photo credit: Ewbanks/BNPS A necklace nearly taken to a car boot sale with a £15 price tag turned out to be a rare 18th-century Polynesian treasure worth almost £100,000. The piece, made from human hair and sperm whale bone and originating from the Austral Islands in the South Pacific, had been found during a house…

Jignesh Patel (left), Rahil Patel (right). Two Indian-origin pharmacists have been jailed for six years each in the UK after using fake prescriptions to obtain medicines worth around £1.3 million from the National Health Service (NHS), which prosecutors said were intended for resale in Europe, Daily Mail reported.Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42, were…

London taxi driver’s £40 painting linked to 19th-century Amritsar sells for £75,000 at auction (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A painting bought for just £40 at a car boot sale in Britain turned out to be a remarkable piece of Indian art nearly three decades later. According to Antiques Trade Gazette, which documented the discovery in…

Andy’s Man Club marks ten years of support with a commemorative mural celebrating its community and volunteers. In a world where men are often expected to keep their struggles to themselves, nine people gathered in Halifax in 2016 around an idea that was as ordinary as it was important. A decade later, that small meeting…

A medal from one of English rugby’s most celebrated nights has changed hands for £54,000, while a pair of shorts associated with football icon Eric Cantona and other sporting keepsakes attracted collectors at an auction in England. The sale, held by sports memorabilia specialist Budds on October 13, featured 332 lots spanning rugby, football, cricket,…

A 1907 masterpiece by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, looted from a Dutch-Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, sold at a London auction earlier this week for £31.56 million (about $42 million, including fees), The New York Times reported. The painting, Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life), was returned to the family’s heirs…

A forgotten box of photography equipment stored in an Oxfordshire loft for nearly 30 years has revealed a very rare Victorian camera that sold at auction for £18,000. The collection was first put away in 1996 by a homeowner who had inherited his father’s belongings. Nearly 30 years later, during a routine house clearance, he…

The appearance of the figures is unusual enough to make some motorists look twice (Representational photo) A group of villagers in England has spent four months making something they hope will persuade speeding motorists to slow down: life-sized knitted traffic officers and fake speed cameras. The unusual road safety campaign began after numerous accidents were…