Three of this year’s best performing stocks — easyJet, Booker, and Domino’s Pizza — will post updates this week in what should be a quiet post-Easter period for corporate news.

Billionaire Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, one of Scotland’s wealthiest foreign residents, who owned an 80,000-acre estate, has died of cancer, his personal secretary said today. He was 65.

Northern Ireland needs to guard against becoming a gangster state, Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey warned tonight.

THE progressive Dawn Group, which was founded in Waterford 25 years ago, opened a €46 million flagship meat processing plant in Wales yesterday.