“I don’t want compensation. I want my gold back.” A man says a gold bar worth £10k he posted through Royal Mail has gone missing in the post. Rob Hobson bought a 100g (0.1kg) gold Britannia bar from his dad’s inheritance and had agreed a buyback offer from the Royal Mint after it was valued […]

4 months ago

He took the expert by surprise. An Antiques Roadshow guest was taken aback when the show’s expert Richard Price delivered a warning to them over the valuation of their item. In a recent episode, the Antiques Roadshow team travelled to the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, where a guest presented Price with a […]

1 year ago

He took the expert by surprise. An Antiques Roadshow guest was taken aback when the show’s expert Richard Price delivered a warning to them over the valuation of their item. In a recent episode, the Antiques Roadshow team travelled to the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, where a guest presented Price with a […]

1 year ago

The man also had two capsule-shaped pouches of gold up his bum A man was arrested at an airport in India after being caught trying to smuggle £31,000 worth of gold into the country under a toupee and up his bum. The man was stopped at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport where officials found […]

4 years ago

This was the first victory in the sport in 20 years Team GB’s curling team, headed by Eve Muirhead, has taken the gold for the first time since Rhona Martin’s historic victory in 2002. After dominating Japan 10-3 on February 20, Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds, Hailey Duff and Mili Smith secured the biggest […]

4 years ago

He’s done it. Tom Daley and Matty Lee have won the Olympic men’s synchronised 10 metre platform, giving Daley his first ever Olympic gold. Thirteen years after making his Olympic debut, Daley finally picked up a gold medal as he and his diving partner Lee edged out China’s Cao and Chen by just a point […]

5 years ago