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“EUROPE certainly shouldn’t be creating new burdens,” said Chancellor George Osborne as he dismissed plans for a financial transaction tax on the City as “a bullet aimed at the heart of London”.

SOTHEBY’S are to change the format of their sculpture works of art sales in London.

MASTERPIECE London has secured planning permission for the third edition of the lavish marquee fair next year.

DOMINIC Winter, who included the Alfred A. Charleswoth collection of old railway tickets as part of their recent collectors' and transport sale, had only a limited track record on which to rely – they sold a rare ticket for around £2000 some seven years ago.

A HIGHLIGHT of the autumn Russian art series in London was Sotheby's sell-out 127-lot sale of works from the family of Alexander Benois (1870-1960), a name synonymous with the Ballet Russes.

THE Birmingham Assay Office is launching a new one-day course, Buying Scrap Gold and Silver, on January.

SCAM guides have struck yet again, but finally the European Commission has launched an investigation and wants to hear from victims about their plight.