8 d. ago First edition of The Hobbit discovered in UK home sells for £43,000

Auction house Auctioneum said it is one of only 1,500 copies printed in September 1937.

Economics

8 d. ago ‘Unimaginably rare’ first edition of The Hobbit sells at auction for £43,000

Only a few hundred from the original 1,500 copy print run of Tolkien’s masterpiece are thought to still existA rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit that was found during a house clearance has sold at auction for £43,000.Bought by a private collector in the UK, the book is one of 1,500 original copies of the seminal fantasy novel that were published in 1937. Of those, only “a few hundred are believed to still remain”, according to the auction house Auctioneum, which discovered the novel without a dust cover on a bookcase at a home in Bristol. Continue reading...

Economics

8 d. ago Copy of The Hobbit sells for massive £43,000 after being found in Bristol house clear out

The copy of JRR Tolkien's 1937 book was found on a bookcase at a home in Bristol during a routine house clearance.

Economics

8 d. ago Fake football shirts worth £5.1m seized as sellers nicked over 67,000 dodgy kits

Seven people have been arrested after a haul of more than 67,000 fake football shirts, worth an estimated £5.1million, were seized by police

Economics

8 d. ago Oasis death fall fan slipped on beer at Wembley in 'accident waiting to happen'

Lee Claydon, 45, plummeted from the upper tier during the sell-out gig in front of 100,000 people on Saturday and died at the scene, despite the best efforts of medics

Events

8 d. ago Oasis fan 'slipped on beer' before plunging to his death over balcony as family demand answers from Wembley over 'accident waiting to happen'

Lee Claydon, 45, from Bournemouth, plummeted from the upper tier during the ­sell-out gig in front of 100,000 people at Wembley Stadium in North London on Saturday.

Events

8 d. ago 'I'm a mum and make £3,000 a month from selling my breast milk to bodybuilders'

McKenzie Stelly, 23, was unable to breastfeed her first child, Elias, four, after he was born with two bottom teeth - making it "impossible" to nurse him. But, the milk hasn't gone to waste

Economics

9 d. ago Seaside home that went to auction for £1 sells for £73,000 after attracting 90 bids

The two-bed apartment went up for grabs in Devon with a bargain guide price

Economics

1 week ago Serum that makes lashes 'thicker, darker and longer' drops to £5.83 in new bundle offer

The Glow For It Travel Edit includes the brand's best-selling lash serum, which has racked up over 1,000 five-star reviews and has been sold almost half a million times

Economics

3 w. ago Doctor and husband jailed for selling stolen NHS PPE on eBay during lockdown

Omer and Attiya Sheikh made almost £8,000 from selling the PPE equipment they knew had been stolen from the NHS.

Sport

3 w. ago Kerr and Lyles offer London Diamond League stardust despite withdrawals

Threat of rain and absences of Hodgkinson, Hassan and Ingebrigtsen are blows but record tilts will enthrall fansOne of the major issues athletics faces is the relative lack of importance that the overwhelming majority of events hold. It is one of the reasons why Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track is yet to catch alight: the pay is great for the athletes, but a win or loss counts for little in the overall scheme of a season or career.The much-maligned Diamond League has fought against such (ir)relevance throughout its existence. In such a context, it is a notable achievement that the London leg of athletics’ premier season-long competition is a 60,000 sellout for what could turn out to be a thunderstorm-threatened Saturday afternoon. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago Bryan Mbeumo transfer update has suddenly backed Manchester United into a corner

Brentford's best players are attracting interest this summer and Man Utd have submitted two bids for Bryan Mbeumo.

Sport