Pensioner stunned as old vase kept in a shoebox fetches £381,000
Unnamed UK buyer pays record sum for Hans Coper piece – bought for £250 in the 1970s – suggesting a boom in ceramics market
Life and style
Aston Martin Valkyrie preview: ‘A car to bring on a fit of the vapours’
Only a handful of these stunning track cars are going to be built, but that won’t stop millions of us lusting after them
Volvo XC60 review: ‘Jaywalking moose can rest easy’
The bestselling SUV from Volvo is the safest car on the road… but don’t ask it to park itself
Make mine a magnum: the rise of supersize wine bottles in Britain
Waitrose reports sales have doubled as larger bottles move into the mainstream
Taste test: which Easter eggs and hot cross buns should you buy?
From chocolate bunnies to luxury eggs, high street Easter treats tasted and rated by Ottolenghi’s Helen Goh
Logomania: from straight fashion statement to something a lot more complex
In fashion, logos can be status symbols, signs of resistance or more recently, markers of irony. This spring, it’s all about cutting them up – literally – and starting again
• See our fashion shoot of logos from the spring/summer 2018 catwalks
• Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement