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Victoria Borwick, Conservative candidate for Kensington and president of the British Antiques Dealers’ Association, has lost her seat to Labour after a third recount by a margin of just 20 votes.

Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen has purchased Vilhelm Hammershøi’s 'White Doors' for the hammer price of £1.2m, well above its £400,000-600,000 estimate.

The final votes are still being counted but the UK is facing a hung parliament. The Conservatives are the largest party but have no clear majority.

A ring bought at a car boot sale for £10 in the 1980s was hammered down at £540,000 at a Sotheby’s auction.

Works by Keith Vaughan, John Minton, Christopher Wood and Paul Nash drew demand at a Woolley & Wallis auction featuring a prominent collection of 20th century British art.

When you hear that a team with ‘Auckland’ in the title won the first football World Cup, two obvious questions immediately come to mind: the first World Cup was surely won by Uruguay in 1930, wasn’t it? And... when have the Kiwis ever been any good at footy?

James 'Jim' Collingridge, one of Christie’s South Kensington’s first auctioneers and mentor to several senior auctioneer figures, has passed away at the age of 86.

A major work by French Academy painter Edouard Joseph Dantan (1846-97) apparently unseen in public for over a century has emerged at an auction in Colchester.

Princess Diana’s stepmother, Chatelaine of Althorp, Dame Barbara Cartland’s daughter, or Acid Raine. The late Countess Spencer had a number of labels and, according to the Telegraph, she “seldom left anyone indifferent”.

A rediscovered sketch by Italian Renaissance master Parmigianino is to be offered at Bonhams in July.