Bid To Save The Planet & Have A Walking Shark Named After You

The Times has a question for its readers: “Want to save the world?" And in case yor reply is "No" or "Depends", it supplies an answer: "Sponsor a walking shark."

This is your chance to name ten newly discovered creates.

The organisms have been located in the waters off Papua. And for the right donation you can have one or more of them named after you.

What odds the Kerching Fairy Basslet? Suggested price: $150,000. Give now or the yellow fish gets it!

In 2004, a monkey discovered in Bolivia became known as the Golden-Palace.com monkey after attracting naming bids of $400,000.

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Sean Connery Gives Cabbie A Tip On How To be Rich

After our advice to keep James Bond merchandise for auctions, we learn via the Sun of Sean Connery’s big giveaway.

The paper sees Connery hail a taxi at London’s City Airport. He asks to be taken to The Scotch House, the shop that sells all manner of tartan.

The Cab is invited to wait.

Connery then heads to his tailor on Savile row.

Again the cabbie waits.

Connery then heads to his home in Chelsea.

The bill is £49.60. Connery hands the Cabbie £50. “Are you sure, mate,” asks the driver.
Indeed.

Having paid for the trip, why tip at all?

Our driver may care to get the note autographed and sell it on eBay…

Buy Bond: 007 Has A Licence To Print Money At Auction

Fat Cats On High Pay Put Meat On The Country's Bones

The fat cats just keep getting fatter. Only thing is, the high earners help the rest of us get fat, too:

Timmy notes:

The fact that fewer than 1,400 company directors received pay packages last year totalling more than £1bn - enough to pay for 15 new hospitals or 50,000 new nurses - is not considered unfair at all.

Given income and NI rates, some 50% of that £1 billion goes to pay for hospitals and nurses. So, we get the large companies run by the best available talent and then we also get 25,000 nurses a year. What's unfair about that?

Via [Tim; Anorak]

Russian Minigarchs: The Top Ten Richest Children Of Russia's Super-Rich

The rich list of Russian children – minigarchs - has been compiled. You’ve been waiting for it for your whole lives and now it is here. Hurrah!

Flicking through my regular copy of Finans, magazine, the Russian money mag for those in the know, I learn that the richest child in Russia is Yusuf Alekperov.

Young Alekperov is aged 17. And, listen up girls and guys, he’s worth a red hot $12.3billion.

The full list is as follows. Kidnappers, extortionists and gold-diggers look away now:

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Chelsea’s Roman Abramovich Has His Credit Card Denied

They say he sleeps upside down with his head in pot of molten gold.

They say his London home is powered by 2,000 eunuchs chewing on white tigers' testicles.

They say Roman Abramovich did enter the Andrew Martin shop in Walton Street, South Kensington and try to buy a lamp.

He offered his polonium credit card. And it was declined. A witness, says the Times, saw all. They say Abramovich was “very polite about it”.

They say rivers started to run backwards and Britain’s richest man did walk on his hands in circles.

Newcastle United’s New Owner Mike Ashley Is Barred

I make no excuse for today's double lift from the Newcastle Journal but spot the rich fat guy in this picture. Here is one of Britain's richest men... and in front of him has to be one of Britain's best endowed women.

That's Newcastle United’s new owner Mike Ashley who was refused entry to a nightclub – because he was wearing one of his team’s replica shirts.

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The Worlds's Most Expensive Homes: Updown Court

Property crash? What are you talking about. Kerching looks at the homes so expensive they defy the market.

The world's most expensive private residence is Updown Court, Windlesham, England.

For £75million, you get:

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Chelsea And England Captain John Terry's 99% Pay Cut - And Gordon Brown Should Earn Less

That, judging from a yougov poll for the Fabians, is what the British public would like to inflict on the Chelsea player, reckoned to be the top division's highest earner, writes The Croydonian.

He currently trousers around £135,000 a week, while the poll suggests that top players should make no more than £62,000 a year. So, he would be in line for something like a 99% pay cut. And it is not just a handful of players making a good living. Last year The Independent calculated that the average income in the top division is £676,000 PA.

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Where To Find Europe & Russia's Billionaires

Where to find Europe and Russia's billionaires. The red disc is Roman Abramovich...

Via [Forbes]

The Rich: Roman Abramovich Skittles His Children's Bowling Alley

It’s not all beer and skittles for Chelsea owner and all round rich man Roman Abramovich.

Poor Roman has had to get rid of his private bowling alley — his children were too noisy celebrating strikes.

Phew! We thought the sounds coming from the mansion’s basement were made by Roman’s Army preparing for invasion…

Roman Abramovich's Midget Submarine; Chelsea Dive