From Beijing to Ballycotton and Shangai to Shanagarry, East Cork tourism is gearing up for the arrival of the Chinese.

DESPITE a very difficult year, corporate travel firm Executive Travel Group saw its pre-tax profit almost double to €821,617 last year.

LAST week, the US Department of Agriculture announced that the relationship of feed costs to milk prices for dairy farmers had reached the lowest point since it began keeping records.

FARMERS will make the most of the high milk and grain prices while they last.

The Construction Workers Trust has said that hundreds of lives could be saved if a national prostate cancer screening programme was established.