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1,500 items owned by Freddie Mercury to go on auction

Handout photo of Ferrari Enzo, which has covered just 141 miles in 20 years.

Special Ferrari could be yours

Kim Kardashian has paid a total of £163,800 for a necklace worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.

Kim Kardashian buys Diana’s Attallah Cross in auction

York is described as being seen as a 'poster boy' for conservation in James Stourton's book.

Meet Yorkshire-born art historian, author and former Sotheby's UK chairman

The Flybrary by artist Christina Sporrong, at the UK debut of the Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man, large scale artworks at Chatsworth House, Bakewell in Derbyshire. Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Radical art of Burning Man debuts at Chatsworth with striking giant sculptures

Lionel Jeffries's working copy of The Railway Children, which is is being sold by Sotheby's auction house

Railway Children director’s original 1969 shooting script goes under the hammer

Ann Dinsdale, the Parsonage museum’s principal curator, looking through poem manuscripts of Emily Bronte in the dining room.. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Campaign to save precious Brontë manuscripts gets boost from anonymous donor

Art handlers at Sotheby's auction house with Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin'

Banksy artwork which partially shredded itself goes back under the hammer

Rules, Regulations, and Laws of the Sheffield Foot-Ball Club was printed in 1859

World's oldest football club hopes to buy first official rulebook for the game

Pages from 'The Hughes family album' of the Hughes family in Devon, one of the items belonging to American poet Sylvia Plath going under the hammer at Sotheby's on July 9.

Sylvia Plath's love letters to Ted Hughes among personal items to be auctioned

Top Withens high on the Pennine Moors above Haworth. The ruins have long been associated with the Bronte's as the home of the Earnshaws in Emily Bronte's novel 'Wuthering Heights'. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

‘Most important Brontë find in a generation’ goes on sale from lost hoard

Rare Toyota 2000GT sells for nearly £700,000

David Hockney. Credit: Victoria Jones/PA Wire.

Yorkshire artist David Hockney's The Splash could go for £30m at Sotheby's aucti...

The banksy artwork before it was taken down from Scott Street Bridge Picture; Jonathan Gawthorpe

Taking down 'Banksy bridge' to cost taxpayer more than £1 million

Made.com is not the first business to realise that the consumer market is changing at a drastic rate.

Rashmi Dube: Why businesses must adapt to the next generation

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$111 million Monet shatters world records

Staff at Sotheby's, London, stand next to a sculpture titled Parent I, 1970, by Dame Barbara Hepworth in the Modern & Post-War British Art section and estimated at Â£2,000,000 - Â£3,000,000, which makes up part of Sotheby's forthcoming National Treasures auctions.

Hepworth sculpture set to sell for millions

David Hockney's "Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 October, 2006" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York.

Hockney's Yorkshire Wolds landscape nets a record Â£9.4m

The 1956 Austin Princess that was the personal property of John Lennon and featured in the 1972 film Imagine which is due to sold in September.

Baby, you can drive his car: John Lennon's Austin Princess could fetch Â£265,000

A Sotheby's employee adjusts After William Acton The Mitford Sisters, six reproduction prints which will be auctioned during Sotheby's forthcoming Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, The Last of The Mitford Sisters sale. Photo: Lauren Hurley/PA Wire

From Graceland to Chatsworth, Debo's treasures go under the hammer

Dr. Crippen, who murdered his wife and then dissected the body.

The secrets of Dr Crippen’s will revealed
John Vincent reports on a new twist to the murder case that still shocks and intrigues in equal measure.

An oil by Leeds painter John Atkinson Grimshaw

A fortune at last for Grimshaw’s moody visions of Yorkshire

Wednesday sees the start of an Ashes summer.

Who will be making the news in the next seven days?

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton

Discovered: famous artist’s lost drawing from his masterpiece

Venetian views by Bernardo Bellotto are expected to reach between £2.5m and £3.5m.

Treasures of Castle Howard go under the hammer

Leeds Centre Library's senior library assistant Phil Wilde examines the Saxon Atlas.

Trailblazer who put nation on map 500 years ago

Record £30m price set for Monet’s Venice work

Churchill art set to sell for seven figures

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte made only £500 from Jane Eyre - but it’s now running £20,000

Court rules Old Master is ‘wasting asset’

The British Guiana 1 cent Magenta.

Objects Of Desire: The envy of the Queen

A Sotheby's employee shows The Pink Star diamond weighing 59.6 carat, during a preview at Sotheby's in Geneva

Star attraction
The most valuable diamond ever to go up for auction is expected to fetch more than £37m.

A Sotheby's employee holds the white diamond at 118.28 carats

High price for perfection

Part of a set of Samuel Beckett jotters

Nobel Laureate’s handwritten manuscript ‘set to fetch £1m’

Sale no-go for Wiggo throne

Scream draws gasps as masterpiece sells for record-breaking £74m in bidding war

The Scream on display before sale

Emily Bronte portrait goes under the hammer

Tiny Brontë book to fetch over £200,000

Wembley gates sold at auction for over £5,000

Historic football club hits jackpot as rule book fetches £881,250

Oldest football club selling archive in £1m attempt to finance future

Building a Victorian picture collection can be a fine art

Not just for the record

Treasure in your attic

King Arthur manuscript sold for £2.39m

Rare Chinese peony jar makes £2.6m at auction

Glittering prizes of Edward and Mrs Simpson

Emma book gift from Austen expected to fetch £100,000 at auction

First edition of Wuthering Heights sells for£163,000 as records tumble at book s...

High price for hei-tiki

High price for hei-tiki

Rare Brontë first editions to go under the hammer

Rare Brontë first editions to go under the hammer

Chatsworth unveils treasures ahead of 'once in lifetime sale'

£3m Royal jewels for auction

Charlotte's anguished letter to go on show at Brontë museum

Striking 'Visitor' in Chatsworth garden on exhibition trail

Rare book of birds expected to sell for £6m

Rare book of birds expected to sell for £6m