'Britain's cheapest house' shocks at auction

It was expected to take the title of Britain's cheapest house. The terrace in a former mining town in the Welsh Valleys went under the hammer with a guide price of just £8,000 yesterday. For your money you'd be getting a one-up-one-down cottage, with an outside toilet - which required complete renovation.

However, in a frenzy of bidding, the house lost the title. So what did it fetch?%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%