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AFTER four years of organising fairs at the Bournemouth Pavilion, the Hampshire-based organisers Valerie and Ken Sleeney, believe the wealthy town and hinterland has more to offer.

THE seventh annual Asian Art in London week will take place this year from November 4 to 12, with a launch party at the Victoria and Albert Museum on November 5.

ANDREW Morris is to be the new chief executive of Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre Group, taking over from Barry Cleverdon who retires next year.

SPECIALIST auctioneers, Ocean Liner Auctions have been instructed to sell what they consider to be the largest and finest collection of fixtures and fittings from RMS Olympic since the vessel was broken up almost 69 years ago.

FOR four generations, and more than 150 years, the Stinton family of porcelain painters were represented at the Worcester factories.

“NICE house, shame about the pictures,” must have been many people’s sentiment when they opened the catalogue of the July 21 sale at Bonhams Knightsbridge (19.5/10% buyer’s premium) of the contents of Marwell House, Hampshire. This fine, if rather rambling, red-brick Georgian house had, for many years, been the home of Dorothea, Viscountess Kelburn, the daughter of Sir Archibald Lyle, whose family made a fortune out of shipping and sugar refining.

SHAME on veteran organiser Cindy Mainwaring for mentioning the ‘C’ word when the summer is barely out.