Excitement is mounting as two new BBC shows - Antiques Under the Hammer and Antiques hit the road - are being aired on TV this week. A BBC spokesperson said to me that there seems to be a great hunger for more antique programming, and that it is up t...
Observers of popular social media have been quick to point out the obvious. But now another obstacle has surfaced like a battleship for those seeking satisfaction to the insult handed All-Americans following events unfolding in Chantilly, Virginia.
The elusive Higgs Boson - the theorised particle which inspired a 10 billion pound hole in the ground has been found. Well so the BBC would have you believe.
The BBC, famed for producing misleading 'factual' programming claims to have photographed...
You never know what you'll find in an abandoned storage locker. But this?
On Tuesday morning the winning bidder walked away with a few old CDs, a hot plate, and former mortgage broker, Skip Kendall.
Kendall, had been living out of Storage Un...
Twilight Saga sex-symbol Robert Pattinson was sitting at home the other day, in a reflective mood. This we have from the horse's mouth of no other horse than our old friend Bingo Cashcow Bimbomountain XIII.
We say it is from the horse's mouth, and it may very well be. It certainly has more chance of being the original mouth of a horse than it has of being anything resembling an original body p...
The Antiques Road-show, a popular BBC 1 prime time show that allows members of the public to bring in their dearest and most expensive possessions for authentication, evaluation and valuation is to show a one-off show.
The show came from Tatton Pa...
TV antiques nice guy Paul Martin was left stunned yesterday after a couple accused him cheating and disrupted filming of his popular afternoon show "Flog It" in north London.
The trouble started when the show's producer asked Paul to do a "with th...
A writer for renowned satirical website TheSpoof.com this morning flatly refused to believe that the first draft of a story he scribbled on the back of a beer mat with a bog standard biro down the pub, sold for £1,800 on Dickinson's Real Deal - the c...
Consternation this afternoon in Dudley as David Dickinson, the presenter of Dickinson's Real Deal, ITV's inferior answer to The Antiques Roadshow, was sold to local Dudley pensioner Valery Flax for £27 by mistake.
It appears that Dickinson caught...
Local man, Martin Shuttlecock was delighted to find an antique artefact packed in a cardboard box in the back of a little used cupboard in his house.
Initially, Shuttlecock thought that the box contained Christmas decorations, but as he moved it, the weight suggested otherwise. With curiosity getting the better of him, Shuttlecock opened the box, and much to his surprise discovered that the box...
MARSEILLE, France: Madonna, singer and performer extraordinaire, surfaced on an Antiques Roadshow taping yesterday evening. The Roadshow, which appraises various fossils and relics from the past brought in by locals, has just wrapped up a week of fi...
The popular BBC antiques programme, Antiques Roadshow, has revealed some of the more unusual items brought in for valuation.
"Our most valuable item was a maquette of the Angel of the North," said host Fiona Bruce. "That was valued at a million. B...
Construction finally resumes on Stonehenge after a delay of more than a millennium, nearly as long as The Rolling Stones have waited to return to Blackpool.
London (Reuters) - The art world was reeling today after the winner of an Ebay auction for the Rosetta Stone posted negative feedback complaining that the stone was poorly packed, missed pieces and was "not the same colour as the photos".
During the production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," animators at Disney distributed a pornographic booklet entitled "Snow White and the Seven Truckdrivers," according to biographer Ward Kimball.
Lost Footage of the fab four has surfaced in a car boot sale in Peckham, South East London. Bert Trubbins, a bargain hunter from Peckham himself was taking his elderly wife Martha for their usual Sunday hunt for trinkets & tat when he came across the...