Man stumps record Â£375k for number plate
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New owner 'privileged' to sport F1 A businessman has stumped a record Â£375,000 to secure the F1 number plate, the Mirror reports.â¦
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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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The jet powered car that almost took the life of the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been put up for sale on eBay, the online auction site
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Chris Simon is setting records it seems only he can break.
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Lagat, the World Indoor 3000m champion clocked 3:52.87 to break the all-time mile record of over the 160-yard banked oval to the roar of a crowd of 13,519. Lagat's mark eclipsed Irishman's Eamonn Coghlan's meet ...
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A Bangladeshi immigrant put himself in the driver's seat by  paying a record $360,000 at a city auction Monday for a New  York taxi medallion, which is required by the city to own a  taxicab. Most cabdrivers in the city work for taxi fleets or  lease time from a medallion owner.
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Business & money: UK Households are expected to splash out record breaking Â£4.25bn in supermarkets on festive food
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The Financial Times today won its action to strike out a record Â£230.5m libel damages claim from City brokers Collins Stewart that could have closed down the pink paper.
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A three-canvas painting by Francis Bacon sold in London for 26.34 million pounds (35.24 million euros, 51.68 million dollars) Wednesday, but narrowly missed out on a record for the artist at auction.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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South Africa were set a Durban record 378 to win the second Test after Graham Thorpe&#39;s unbeaten 118 marshalled England to 570-7 declared on day four.
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America's Aaron Peirsol breaks his own  200m backstroke world record at the Short Course World Championships.
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The loan servicer is raising some serious cash.
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Matthew Emmons is a trained accountant  but he got his numbers terribly wrong on Sunday.
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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Justin Langer broke legendary West Indies batsman Viv Richards's Somerset record score when he made 342 against Surrey at Guildford in the County Championship.