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A letter from John Lennon denying that the Beatles “ripped off” black music fetched £12,000 at auction yesterday.
Dashed off on a piece of “American Airlines” headed notepaper, the letter was a response to a newspaper article accusing the Beatles of imitating and exploiting American black music in their early cover records.

Yahoo! Inc. and EBay Inc. formed a partnership for online search and advertising as the two Internet companies seek to challenge the dominance of Google Inc.
The accord marries Yahoo, ranked No. 2 in online search, with EBay, the world’s largest Internet auctioneer, and will be implemented in the U.S. by 2007, the companies said today [...]

The Odeon House on Eyre Square in Galway City Centre is expected to sell for between 10 - 12 million when it goes for sale by public auction on Friday.
The Odeon House, which looks out onto Eyre Square, is comprised of a multi-let office building and a large car park.
The car park is located at [...]

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Soccer fans are bidding thousands of euros for World Cup tickets online even though tournament organisers have warned that they risk being turned away at the stadiums.
For security reasons, tickets for the month-long tournament starting on June 9 are personalised with the buyer’s name and are not transferable except under special circumstances.

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Lloyd Maunder announced last month it was closing its lamb operations at Willand in Devon after losing an important supermarket account.
The 135 staff to be made redundant will finish work at the plant on Friday. Pro Auction Limited have been appointed to sell the assets at the factory by public auction on the [...]