James Bond’s Lotus Esprit Turbo from the film For Your Eyes Only has been sold to a Middle Eastern buyer for £105,000 at an auction in Oxfordshire, the BBC reports.
The sale at Blenheim Palace took place on Saturday. The auction firm Coys said the buyer was a telephone bidder.
Two identical cars were supplied for the Production, but one was blown up during a stunt.

Celebrities, sports stars and high profile businessmen are among those duped into an alleged £80 million Ponzi scheme, that police claim was so convincing many of its victims cannot accept they have been scammed, the Daily Telegraph reports.
City of London Police suspect at least 600 people around the world have lost huge sums invested in an allegedly bogus high-yield fund. They said it is one of the biggest Ponzi frauds, a crime made famous by disgraced …

Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggested today that Labour is preparing for a General Election campaign in April next year, the Daily Mail reports.
Johnson told the BBC that “eight months before a general election”, Labour still has everything to play for.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown must call an election by June 3, 2010, at the latest, but many observers believe that the most likely date is May 6, to coincide with council polls across England.
Mr Johnson’s eight-month …

Just a few hours after I blogged about British troops having to use Soviet-made Mi-8 helicopters that drop like rocks, in Afghanistan, one of those crashed in the country and killed 16 people on board.
The helicopter crashed at the Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan, and also five people were injured in the crash, the BBC reports. The crash happened when the helicopter was trying to take off.
The crash is the second in a week. Six …

British frontline troops in Afghanistan are so short of helicopters and transport planes that they are being bailed out by the Russians, The Mail on Sunday reports.
Newspaper says that the Ministry of Defence is using civilian Russian-built Mi-8 and Mi-26 transport helicopters to ferry supplies and soldiers in Afghanistan. The pilots are freelance Russians and Ukrainians.
Britain is also hiring massive commercial Russian Antonov aircraft to fly vehicles and heavy equipment from RAF Brize Norton in …