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Instagram is making it easier for businesses to make sales by extending its ‘Shopping’ feature to eight new countries, including the UK.

Businessman and art collector Algy Cluff is launching his second book in two years – packed full of tales including art heists, forgeries and dispersals of art collections.

A gallery in Colchester is to host a version of an exhibition first staged by commercial gallery Hauser & Wirth last year.

Crowds descended on Bolton at the weekend to see the sell-out auction of the property of steeplejack and TV personality Fred Dibnah.

Sotheby’s has chosen Dubai to unveil a Rubens painting it plans to offer later this summer in a bid to tap into the hoped-for demand for Old Master paintings in the Middle East.

The next arms and militaria auction at Woolley and Wallis will include a relic of a seminal American Civil War sea battle. This stout oak walking cane with a finely engraved gold top bears the inscription: A Piece of the Merrimack Destroyed May 11 1862 /James B Eads from Edward Bates. Quercus Ferro Cedit.

Transport Auctions of London is calling for the trade to look out for a stolen London Underground map.