The bottom line

£51,700

How much the Bank of England has spent on rebranding, including £22,300 on a new font, £7,700 on animation and film, £15,000 on photography and £6,700 on a new logo with the Union Jack, says The Times. The Bank is funded by banks and building societies.

$1bn

The value of artmarket trade that Britain has lost in two years due to VAT, import fees and red tape stemming from Brexit, according to “The Art Market 2022” report by art fairs organiser Art Basel and bank UBS. China is now the second-biggest art market after the US.

C$869,300

The benchmark price (£530,000) of a house in Canada, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association. The Canadian government is banning most foreigners from buying property for two years after prices rose by around 50% since February 2020.

€325

The new basic income of £279 per week around 2,000 artists, actors and musicians in Ireland are set to receive as part of a pilot scheme to aid the sector’s recovery following the pandemic. Applications to the scheme opened this week.

£1,254

The fine that would have been due on a copy of the Roman comedy Querolus anonymously returned to University College London (UCL) Libraries almost 50 years late. The fine had been growing by 10p a day since the summer of 1974.

$87.5m

How much actor Mark Wahlberg (pictured) is asking for his six-acre Beverly Hills Park estate in Los Angeles, 13 years after buying the plot of land for $8m and building his dream family home on it, says the Daily Mail. The property has a swimming pool, gym and spa, along with 30,500 square feet of living space.