Can you tell a £25,000 ring from a £49 one? As largest white diamond in the UK for over a decade sells for £1million, how to spot a true sparkler

The largest white diamond to come to the UK market in over a decade has sold for £1.009million in London's Notting Hill, to an anonymous Briton who bought the impressive band as a gift for his wife.


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