Lowry work fetches record Â£3.8m
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A 1946 painting by LS Lowry is sold for the highest price paid for the artist at an auction.
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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reports record annual profits of Â£25.36bn (Â£12.94bn).
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Energy giant Shell announces an annual profit of Â£9.32bn - a record for a UK-listed company.
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A judge on Wednesday ruled to strike out a record 230.5 million pound ($415 million) claim for special damages by British investment bank Collins Stewart against the Financial Times newspaper.
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SOCCER ace Dennis Lawrence broke a goal-scoring record just hours after dodging Jamaica&#39;s worst-ever hurricane! Despite only arriving back in Wales hours before, the Wrexham defender not only scored the winning
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DAMIEN Hirst made an eight-figure fortune last night from the sale of the fixtures and fittings he designed for a London restaurant.
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A painting by Joan Miro sold for a world record figure for the Spanish artist&#39;s work at the start of a bumper series of high-value art sales at Christie&#39;s in London, the auctioneer said Tuesday.
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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, has said that net profit surged by 33 percent to a record 4.571 billion pounds (6.782 billion euros, 8.906 billion dollars) in 2006, lifted by its investment banking arm.
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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A painting attributed to cult graffiti  artist Banksy fetched more than 200,000 pounds ($391,000) in an  online auction on Monday. Now the lucky owner will just have to  work out how to get it home.
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Copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard had been expected to fetch Â£30,000-Â£50,000 at auction
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Business & money: Rose's Â£8m deal for executives contrasted with 4.6% rise on shopfloor.
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MPs totted up Â£87.6m in expenses in the last financial year - a "like for like" rise of about 5% on the year before.
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The British oil exploration firm Cairn Energy may owe the Indian government more than $6.9m (Â£3.8m) in a dispute over an Indian oilfield, the company said yesterday.
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Britain&#39;s Damien Hirst has been crowned  the world&#39;s most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a  title held for 18 years by America&#39;s Jasper Johns.
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The north of England's bid to upstage the Turner prize took another step forward last night with the award of Â£15,000 tax-free and a bundle of commissions to two artists from the region
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The total price of all Britain's private housing stock reaches the Â£3.3 trillion mark, tripling its value 10 years ago.