On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £ 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards, John Singers, an American investment banker ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment.

Gauntlett bought a 12. 5 % stake in Aston Martin for £ 500, 000 via Pace Petroleum in 1980, with Tim Hearley of CH Industrials taking a similar share.

On 12 March 2007, a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £ 475m ( US $ 848m ).

The £ 1. 2m was raised in 12 days ; half of this was used to rebuild the Navy.

A copy of this first issue sold for £ 12, 100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time thought to be the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction.

However, he allowed the young Earl to spend upwards of £ 1, 000 per annum during the wardship: his tailor's bills alone, from the age of 12 to 16, totalled some £ 600.

Since then, his efforts have raised more than £ 12 million for charity, with Leukaemia Research among the causes to benefit.

A measure of Loach's difficulties gaining broad release for his work is the fact that this film ended up making only £ 12, 000 profit.

The first major attempt to improve the situation was made by a Jeddah merchant, Muhammad ʿAlī Zaynal Riḍā, who founded the Madrasat al-Falāḥ in Mecca in 1911 – 12 that cost £ 400, 000.

A quarter of them, £ 12, 500, must be paid up.

On 12 July 2007, it was announced that Ringwood had been purchased by Marston's plc for £ 19. 2 million.

An annual event, the competition gives 12 young musical theatre students from top UK drama schools and universities the opportunity to compete for a prize of £ 1, 000.

The livestock was 14 unbroken mares, 3 cattle and 128 sheep ; its value was £ 12 annually.

Final costs were over £ 12 million ( UK ) ( equivalent to about US $ 38. 3 million in 1970 ), making Waterloo, for its time, one of the most expensive movies ever made.

It was released on PSN on March 26, 2009 for $ 12. 99 in the US and April 2009 at a cost of £ 7. 99 in the UK.

** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

In 2008 / 9 the BBC World Service received 12. 4 % of the department's £ 2. 2 billion budget and in the financial year 2011 / 12, the service received £ 255. 2 million from this grant.

) Of the 70-plus known works in the canon of Thomas Dekker, roughly 50 are collaborations ; in a single year, 1598, Dekker worked on 16 collaborations for impresario Philip Henslowe, and earned £ 30, or a little under 12 shillings per week — roughly twice as much as the average artisan's income of 1s.

Within the first few weeks, Isabella had granted herself almost £ 12, 000 ; finding that Edward's royal treasury contained £ 60, 000, a rapid period of celebratory spending then ensued.

The Press today transfers 30 % of its annual surplus to the rest of the University, with a commitment to a minimum transfer of £ 12 million per annum.

This converted to GBP £ 1, 687, 837 at the time In 2012, the capital is worth around SEK 3. 1 billion ( USD 472 million, EUR 337 million ), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account.

* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

The company was resold, following a further bankruptcy event, by the Receiver in 1975 to North American businessmen Peter Sprague and George Minden for £ 1. 05 million.

The deal valued Aston Martin / AML at £ 2 million, the year it built its 10, 000th car.

In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

The acquiring price was US $ 1. 75 billion or £ 935 million, with US $ 170 million of debt.

The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.

At the same time the African and Oceanic collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family-with the donation valued at £ 25 million.

However, the lack of a large temporary exhibition space has led to the £ 100 million World Conservation and Exhibition Centre to provide one and to concentrate all the Museum's conservation facilities into one Conservation Centre.

A 2011 donation of £ 1 million enabled the museum to acquire a complete set of Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite.

They also hope to invest in a new modern transport system ( high-speed rail and others ) for Belfast, with a cost of £ 250 million.

The full significance of this soon became apparent as the club recorded net losses of over £ 13 million in the past financial year.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

In April 2012 it was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the seventh most valuable football club in the world, at £ 473 million ($ 761 million ).

In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £ 140 million.

Over £ 100 million was spent on new players, but Ranieri was unable to deliver any trophies, and was replaced by José Mourinho.

Moorgate was demolished with all the other London city wall gates in 1761 / 2, and the resulting stone was sold for £ 166 to the City of London Corporation to support the starlings of the newly widened centre arch of the London Bridge.

The £ 3million cost of relocating the arch from its then location in Theobalds Park and subsequent restoration was met by the Corporation of London with donations from the Temple Bar Trust and several City Livery Companies.

In his will he left £ 20, 000 to help pay off the national debt, something Lord Mansfield described as " a very foolish bequest .. he might as well have attempted to stop the middle arch of Blackfriars Bridge with his wig full-bottomed wig ".

Lorimer had in fact provisionally agreed to join Leeds ' arch rivals Manchester United after they paid a bribe of £ 5, 000 to his parents ( based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £ 180, 000 in 2009 ), though the money was returned once he signed for Leeds instead .< ref >

The masonry arch dam wall, designed by Lieutenant Percy Simpson, builder of the Great North Road, and cost of £ 17, 000.

On 30 January 1987, the Brave Goose, the £ 3, 500, 000 yacht of National Car Parks founder Sir Donald Gosling, became wedged under the central arch of the bridge, eventually being freed at low tide the next day.

The current five arch bridge has medieval origins, but was rebuilt in the 18th century and widened in 1814 it cost of £ 452.

The Victorian Society, whose vice-chairman was Sir John Betjeman, attempted to raise £ 90, 000 to pay for the relocation of the arch, and pleaded for a stay of execution for the arch until this had been done.

He was employed as a welder working in Ike Smith's welding shop which was located under a railway arch, his wages were £ 1 5s (£ 1. 25p ) per week of which he paid his Aunt £ 1. 2s. 6d (£ 1. 12½p ) for rent.