13 h. ago LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the familyA rare painting by LS Lowry bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000.The painting, Going to the Mill, was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. Continue reading...

Economics

14 h. ago LS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 sells for more than £800,000

Lowry, who was lauded for his portrayal of everyday industrial scenes in northwest England, painted the piece in 1925.

Economics

42 h. ago Coin flip: 8m freshly minted dimes spilled on US highway after truck crash

$800,000 in coins were scattered on Texas highway, forcing closure for nearly 14 hours as clean-up crews workedAn avalanche of 8m freshly minted dimes spilled from an overturned truck and closed a Texas highway for almost 14 hours.Witnesses described a sea of silver on US Route 287 in Alvord, 50 miles north of Fort Worth. Clean-up crews attempted to suck up the coins, worth $800,000, using vacuums more commonly used to unclog sewers and drains. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Coin flip: 8m freshly minted dimes spill on US highway after truck crash

$800,000 in coins were scattered on Texas highway, forcing closure for nearly 14 hours as clean-up crews workedAn avalanche of 8m freshly minted dimes spilled from an overturned truck and closed a Texas highway for almost 14 hours.Witnesses described a sea of silver on US Route 287 in Alvord, 50 miles north of Fort Worth. Clean-up crews attempted to suck up the coins, worth $800,000, using vacuums more commonly used to unclog sewers and drains. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago LS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 expected to fetch up to £1 million

The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by Arthur Wallace for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since.

Economics

4 d. ago LS Lowry painting that was bought for £10 could make a family millionaires

The legendary English artist sold the 17ins by 21ins oil on panel work, entitled Going to the Mill, to journalist Arthur Wallace in 1926 for one third of the £30 listed price.

Economics

4 d. ago Escape To The Country buyer breaks down in tears and walks off camera as 'unbelievable' reveal leaves her 'speechless'

A recent episode of the BBC show saw train engineer Hemi enlist help from Nicki Chapman as she tried to find the perfect property in Dorset for £800,000.

Politics

7 d. ago Nearly 140,000 pensioners underpaid by DWP with £800 million owed

The government predicts all cases will be resolved by the end of March 2027

Economics

1 week ago Martin Lewis urges hundreds of thousands of homeowners to check if they are owed tax refund

The Money Saving Expert said that 800,000 households could be eligible for a huge refund in overpaid council tax without even knowing it - here's how you can check

Economics

1 week ago Martin Lewis issues advice to 800,000 households who could be owed hundreds in a tax refund

Martin Lewis had issued advice to anyone who has moved home since 1993. The money expert, 52, revealed if you've moved house in the last 31 years you could be owed money.

Economics

1 week ago Martin Lewis MSE warning to anyone who has moved home since 1993

If you've moved house in the last 31 years, especially to a different council area, you could be one of the 800,000 households eligible for a Council Tax refund worth £100s

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2 w. ago Urgent electricity meter warning as thousands of Brits risk being cut off

Around 800,000 homes risk being cut off from electricity if they do not get their meter replaced, experts have warned. It comes as all Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) metres will be permanently switched off this year

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2 w. ago People say 'words fail them' over house listing with unusual feature inside

The spacious six-bedroom property in the village of Thornage near Holt in Norfolk is currently on the market for £800,000.

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3 w. ago Seeing Australia’s beloved gumtrees dying makes my insides knot. If they can’t survive, how can we? | Jess Harwood

Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughtsExplore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this electionGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an emailLast week I went to Adelaide to see a man about a tree. The man was Dr Dean Nicolle and the tree was actually 10,000 eucalypt trees and mallees, of over 800 species, which Dean has been planting on a block of land south of Adelaide since 1993.Dean’s passion for eucalypts is incredible. It makes me realise that so much conservation happens purely because someone is just absolutely captivated by something. And thank goodness Dean is, because his love for the eucalypt made the Currency Creek Arboretum, which is designed to bring together all of Australia’s eucalypt species in one place for research. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago By slapping tariffs on Britain, Trump has gifted Starmer with the perfect excuse to ditch Net Zero fiasco, writes MATT RIDLEY

Sir Keir Starmer has woken up to the fact that his policies are killing one of Britain's last successful manufacturing industries, the £90-billion-a-year car industry, on which 800,000 jobs depend.

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