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INVESTORS and artists in Australia are in uproar at proposals to ban self-managed pensions from putting their money in art.

POLICE in Surrey are seeking information about this man, pictured here, in connection with the theft of six paintings and Georgian writing desk worth total of around £25,000 from an antiques shop in Dorking earlier this month.

SALVO, the leading architectural salvage and garden antiques fair, is being repositioned to capitalise on the increasing popularity of reclaimed artefacts among upmarket architects, designers and decorators.

WEST Sussex auctioneer Rupert Toovey was ordained deacon at Chichester cathedral on June 26.

TRADERS and campaigners at Portobello Road are urging fellow dealers and members of the public to attend the planning meeting regarding the redevelopment of The Good Fairy Market taking place at Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall on Tuesday, July 6.

LONDON'S brand new fair, Masterpiece, closed on June 29, but already by the end of the preview on June 23 it was clear that not only was the event a winner, but it had broken the mould of international antiques fairs.

THE latest Impressionist & Modern art auction series in London saw rising returns for the salerooms but buyers reacted unfavourably to heavy estimates on the most expensive works.