Scotland Yard seeking extradition from  Germany of fraudster Mogens Hauschildt

The Middle East investment house that previously owned and floated Gucci, Saks Fifth Avenue and Tiffany & Co is turning its hand to a Danish upmarket jeweller.

1. Sacha, Weeting, Elveden, Tuleta. What’s the connection?

Man said to have posed as brother of Carole Waugh arrested at Luton Airport

A diamond tiara is not among the usual items handed in to the lost and found department at Glasgow Airport. But when £100,000 of jewellery, including a Victorian headpiece, was found by the British Airports Authority (BAA), they sold it on rather than tracking down its distraught owner who had reported it missing several months before.

Luxury online retailer Net-a-Porter is hoping to tap into the demand for expensive childrenswear, home furnishings and cosmetics with early-stage plans for three new websites, The Independent has learned.

Where are you now and what can you see?

The luxury goods brand Burberry has revealed a storming 22 per cent rise in third-quarter sales, despite the economic storm clouds.

The handbags maker Mulberry has poached its new chief executive from French luxury goods house Hermès.

Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery collection fetched a record-setting 115 million dollars (£74 million) at auction - including more than 11.8 million dollars (£7.6 million) for a pearl necklace.

Tourists shopping in London helped Mulberry post a 231 per cent rise in half yearly profits to £15.6m yesterday as its retail sales rose 47 per cent and wholesale orders surged 93 per cent.

The latest British Social Attitudes report offers an annual opportunity for commentators to jump to conclusions about the precise ways in which the country is going to pot, for that is always how its findings are interpreted. This year, the headline theme is selfish individualism.

All is not bliss in the Elysian fields.