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A rare 16th Century gold coin depicting Mary Queen of Scots has sold for £17,500 at auction. The sale was conducted by auctioneers Woolley & Wallis, of Salisbury, Wilts and was expected to fetch £3,000.

The first text message ever sent is being put up for auction by Vodafone.

Blood donors will be rewarded with Christmas trees under a novel scheme in Poland.

A court has ruled that a 39-year-old unemployed woman is not entitled to financial support from her retired father. The woman lives in Rome with her mother, who sought €900 per month in alimony from her husband, who separated from her and moved out of the family home in 2013.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, an in-demand non-fungible token (NFT) has been accidentally sold for a little more than $3,000 (£2,270) - one-hundredth of its market price. The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a limited run of 10,000 pieces of digital art, each with minor variations.

A rare cask-aged collection of rums from Banchory-based Dark Matter Distillers has sold at auction for £41,800. The nine bottles date back to the opening of the distillery in 2015. All of them were aged in a virgin American oak barrel at 63.5 per cent ABV.

A Northern Ireland woman who defeated her husband in the early stages of the championship has been acclaimed the best Monopoly player in the UK and Ireland.

A US restaurant chain with waitresses who wear mini-kilts and tartan crop tops is looking to expand into Scotland, its would-be motherland.

Grammy Award-winning rapper 50 Cent has filed for bankruptcy in the United States. The music star, businessman and actor no longer has a penny to his name — after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Bookmaker Paddy Power is facing a lawsuit from Irish football manager Roy Keane after using his likeness on a parody poster. A mocked-up image of Keane as William Wallace was blazoned across a 40ft truck outside the Aviva stadium on the day the Republic of Ireland played Scotland in a Euro 2016 qual

A group of bell ringers at a church in Kent were forced to fill out a US tax form, hand over their personal bank details, and clarify their links with the nuclear power industry in order to open a bank account. Neil Campbell, 76, told The Telegraph that he filled out an 18-page application form to o

Money can increase brain surface and intellectual performance, according to a new study. While hard cash might not be able to literally buy another brain, researchers have found that regardless of genetic ancestry, a family’s socioeconomic status can be traced as the difference in children’s bra

A new survey of SMEs by Bank of Scotland has revealed that many of them still have a “blind-spot” and do not understand the benefits of new technology. Just over a quarter (27 per cent) respondents maintained that digital is “irrelevant” to them, according to the UK Business Digital Index co

Polish people are Scotland’s most economically active ethnic group. According to analysis of the 2011 census, those who identified themselves as "White: Polish" were the most likely to work full-time as an employee (56 per cent) and were also the most likely to be economically active (86 per cent)

A high school text book on economics has been revealed as the most checked-out title at the Bank of England’s vast library. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’s library is where leading research and analysis goes on among rows of books to support the central bank’s policies.