Happy 100th birthday, the roundel. Its exhibition opens today at Rochelle School. More interesting for fans of transport memorabilia and contemporary art who've a few bob still sloshing around in these tight times, you can bid to buy one of these roundel inspired works of art online (like that one, pictured, by James Ireland) from 15 October. 100 artists have contributed to this centennial celebration including Peter Blake, Cornelia Parker, Mark Titchner, Gavin Turk......

Attention all Cash in the Attic fans: sifting through junk shops is now officially the only sure-fire way of beating the credit crunch. A Claret jug valued at just £100 in a local auction house in Somerset has just fetched over £3m at auction. The jug was initially believed to be a cheapo French affair and had a £100 estimate tagged on it. Eyebrows soon began to rise, however, when bidding ran up into......

The LTM eBay auction closes this Sunday and to spur you on to part with your cash online they've slung in a couple of smashing extra lots. You can now bid to have tea at the Ritz with the gorgeously retro Puppini Sisters with tickets for their next gig thrown in. And, if you're unfortunate enough to be missing out on Heritage Train Day this weekend, you could bag an entire VIP carriage aboard......

Forget London on the Cheap for a minute. If you're a true London geek with a proper taste for public transport then you need to check the piggy bank and make sure your eBay account is active. London Transport Museum if having a big ole auction with some awesome lots, if you can bid big enough. A tour of the disused Aldwych tube station - of much film fame but no longer open to......

Sell your house right now and buy some art: that's Londonist's advice for beating the credit crunch. At least, that's the only conclusion to draw on hearing that Christie's have had a second record-breaking art sale inside of a week. This one saw a new world record set for a Jeff Koons sculpture – £12.9 million for his 'Ballon FLower, Magenta', a huge chrome sculpture that has stood on display in St James's Square......

What if god was one of us... Grow up. A letter written by Einstein, dismissing the idea of god and the bible as "pretty childish" has sold for $400,000 at a Bloomsbury auction. We are living in a material world... and Posh and Paris are competing through a tabloid pout marathon to flog their wares across the West End C'mon feel the noise... and map it for DEFRA Keep on movin':Jazzie B gets OBE......

You've laboured (either lovingly or reluctantly) over his serialized novels, you've likely quaffed in some of his favourite pubs, and now, you can sit at his desk. And by "you" we mean those rabid Dickens fans that can spare around £100,000. Charles Dickens's writing desk and chair are to be auctioned off at Christie's in June. All proceeds will go to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, of which Dickens was a serious patron and......

Pigeons may be flying rats to Ken Livingstone and thousands of other Londoners - but to some, they are war heroes. And worth a pretty penny in portrait form. Oil paintings depicting the birds who flew back and forth during two world wars, acting as spies and messengers have been sold at auction for astonishing prices. Sold by Bonhams auction house, the eight oil paintings were purchased mostly by an unnamed buyer who placed......

Billie Piper is all set to slip into Belle de Jour's gusset! Here's the scoop direct from the diary of a London call girl: Finally - it's official - Billie's on board, and you can expect to see Belle the series on ITV2 this autumn. I couldn't be more excited, and I know the writers and actors and everyone else will do a great job. Hurrah! Hurrah! indeed. Now all the people who have......

When secret agent James Bond is not busy neutralizing evil geniuses who live in really cool houses, he becomes sometimes concerned about the welfare of troubled children. Or at least his tux does. Or at least one of the prop tuxes that Daniel Craig wore when he portrayed James Bond in Casino Royale does. At a recent auction to raise money for the children's charity ChildLine, the tuxedo, worn during the shooting of the......

Since we posted about the little 'fall out' between Jack 'The Lad' White and Billy 'Grown Up' Childish and a certain 'poster altercation', the Aquarium Gallery has added an update on what's happening. Contrary to some press reports the White Stripes are not suing us and neither are we an East London Gallery. We're West Central... or Bloomsbury if you want to be posh about it. What the White Stripes did do was ask......