6 h. ago Look out for this ultra rare 50p coin from 2009 that sold for £7,000

Only 629 copies of this coin were ever made making it especially sought after

Economics

47 h. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London slides and UK gilts sell as Reeves spooks market with tax U

FTSE 100 LIVE: London slides and UK gilts sell as Reeves spooks market with tax U-turn  Yahoo Finance UK

Economics

4 d. ago Drive like royalty! Bentley used to chauffeur King Charles is set to sell at auction for £100,000

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne, used by the Monarch for multiple official engagements when he was the Prince of Wales, is predicted to fetch between £80,000 to £100,000

Economics

4 d. ago Drive like royalty! Bentley used to chauffeur King Charles is set to sell at auction for £100,000

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne, used by the Monarch for multiple official engagements when he was the Prince of Wales, is predicted to fetch between £80,000 to £100,000

Economics

5 d. ago Expert says look out for 50p coin from 2009 worth almost £300

A coin expert shared a sought-after 50p that could be worth up "more than 500 times" its face value

Economics

5 d. ago 50p coin sells for almost £100 on eBay thanks to Queen's head mistake

The coin was released in 2017 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of famed British author Beatrix Potter

Politics

9 d. ago Look out for this rare 50p coin worth '100 times its face value'

This highly sought-after coin could fetch as much as £50

Politics

1 week ago Footsie hits new record high as investors brush off fears AI bubble will burst

After a nervy morning following a heavy sell-off on Wall Street on Tuesday, the FTSE 100 closed 0.6 per cent higher at 9777.08 on Wednesday.

Economics

1 week ago Royal Mint names top 10 rarest 50p coins that could fetch more than 100 times their face value

Coin collectors should be on the look out for these rare 50p coins

Politics

1 week ago Rare coin warning after popular Queen Elizabeth 50p design sells for £300,000

This 50p coin is causing a major discussion on Instagram with many versions of it selling for £300,000, if not more online. But one expert revealed what to look out for

Events

1 week ago Brits urged to look for Christmas 50p coin 'worth over £300'

This rare coin could be hiding in your wallet or coin jar

Economics

1 week ago ‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst

Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and their literary tastes reflect our timesThe sales patterns for classic novels are normally a fairly predictable business. “Every year it’s the same authors,” says Jessica Harrison, publishing director for Penguin Classics UK. “Austen is always at the very top, and then all the school ones: Orwell, An Inspector Calls, Of Mice and Men, Jane Eyre.”But last year it was different. Penguin’s bestselling classic by far was a little-known novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. White Nights sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK in 2024. It is an angsty story of impossible love, run through with characteristic Dostoevskian gloom. A young man and woman meet on a bridge in St Petersburg on consecutive nights: his love for her is unrequited; she is despairing because the man she really love...

Politics

2 w. ago 'I bagged almost £100 profit on car boot sale finds after seller's mistake'

A man who purchased three separate items at a car boot sale for a grand total of £7.50 has managed to turn over almost £100 in profit - all because of one mistake

Economics

2 w. ago 'I made almost £100 profit on cheap car boot sale finds after seller's blunder'

A man who paid less than £10 for items from a car boot sale has managed to turn nearly £100 in profit, all because of one big mistake the seller made that he took advantage of

Economics

2 w. ago Titanic passenger’s archive set to sell for more than £100,000

Among the items included in the sale is the only first class passenger list from the stricken liner to have survived.

Economics

3 w. ago Liberal Democrat peer Lord Taverne who quit Labour in row over Europe dies aged 97

The peer was the Treasury minister as the UK prepared to move to decimal currency and championed the introduction of the 50p coin to replace the 10-shilling note.

Events