The bottom line

£45

The value of a gift voucher received by BillieJean King for winning the Wimbledon singles, double and mixed doubles in 1967 – equivalent to £835 in today’s money.

£150m

The reported cost of new penthouses in Churchill’s Old War Office in Whitehall, London. Buyers can live in spaces where key decisions were made by Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. Notable figures, such as T.E. Lawrence and Ian Fleming, started their careers in the Grade II listed Whitehall building, which is directly across from Horse Guards Parade. Two-bedroom flats start at £5.8m.

$600m

The estimated value of an art collection owned by New York realestate billionaires Harry and Linda Macklowe, which will be auctioned at Sotheby’s as a result of their acrimonious divorce.

£8,000

How much it will cost Swale Borough Council in Kent to undo a series of nonsensical planning decisions by a junior officer who was carrying out a software test. Five arbitrary decisions accompanied by frivolous comments were accidentally published on the council’s website, are now legally binding and will need to be overturned via judicial review.

£320,000

What a small porcelain bowl, initially believed to be worth £500, fetched at auction in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The bowl turned out to be 900-yearold Chinese Ru ware.

$60,000

The cost of a bottle of Yamazaki’s 55-year-old single malt whisky. The Japanese distiller is releasing 100 more bottles of the whisky, made from a blend of three single malts distilled in the 1960s.

The first 100 bottles were released last year in Japan. Suntory, which owns Yamazaki, will donate $5,000 per bottle to a charity.