More than 100 years of livestock auctioneering has come to an end at a site in Cumbria.

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The relatively low number of bidders and the equally low amount of money made by the auctioneering firm implied that others agreed with my thinking.

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Many countries have now followed America in encouraging guilty parties to spill the beans: the first member of a cartel to come forward now wins leniency, a concession taken advantage of in both the vitamin and auctioneering cases.

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