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A letter sent by Lord of the Rings writer JRR Tolkien to a young fan is being put up for auction. The author wrote to eight-year-old Christopher Howard in 1961. Now, Mr Howard from Kent has decided to sell the letter after keeping it for sixty years.

A social media account posing as the "Government of East Africa" went viral after posting an image of a fake new single currency called the "sheafra". The East African Community was forced to dismiss the sheafra notes as rumours, confirming that plans for a regional currency remain a work in progres

A pair of security guards who found a huge bag of money left behind by robbers targeting their workplace pocketed the cash and went on a spending spree – before having it conned from them by fake police officers. The bizarre chain of events began with the robbery of Quest Financial Services in

A rare 130-year-old banknote is set to be sold at auction for an estimated sale price of £30,000. The note from the Birmingham branch of the Bank of England will be sold on Thursday.

The question of who invented butter chicken is to be resolved by an Indian court in a case which has already racked up over €200,000 in legal fees. The Delhi High Court is hearing a case brought by the owners of Delhi restaurant Moti Mahal against the Daryaganj restaurant chain amid rival claim

A lost watercolour by JMW Turner has been sold at auction for £96,000.

A sword from the Battle of Culloden is set to go under the hammer in Edinburgh next week. Auction house Bonhams has estimated the value of the 18th-century basket hilt broadsword, carried by clansmen loyal to Bonnie Prince Charlie, to be between £500 and £800, the BBC reports.

Colin Firth's wet shirt from the Pride and Prejudice TV series is set to goup for auction.

A high school is being sued after a teacher allegedly brought real swords to the classroom and instructed pupils to fight. Chemistry teacher Loviata Mitchell allegedly told pupils she had a "surprise" before pulling out weapons described as resembling a katana and a rapier, which she smuggled past s

Savills has raised record £71 million from the sale of 350 lots at its first-ever two-day live-streamed auction on 27 and 28 February. The auction achieved 74% success rate. The auction showcased a surge in demand for higher value lots, with 13 lots selling for over £1m. Savills has

The Royal Mint has unveiled a coin featuring George Michael.

Angry parents summoned police to a "Willy Wonka Experience" in Glasgow after it turned out to be little more than a sparsely-decorated warehouse. Police Scotland confirmed that officers attended the event and provided advice as parents with crying children raged about the £35 ticket price.

Businesses in Japan are increasingly turning to a new form of insurance product in response to a surge in viral videos featuring part-time employees engaging in disruptive behaviour. A recent incident involved Domino's Pizza Japan Inc., which issued a public apology on this month after a v

A man has been charged with insider trading offences after allegedly making close to $2 million by eavesdropping on his wife's work calls.

Trump supporters have begun crowdfunding $355 million (around £280m) to cover a penalty imposed on the former president by a New York court – and have raised just over $1 million so far. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay the eye-watering $354.8m sum in damages after finding that