ONE DAY last summer, a Brighton writer called Lucy Anne Holmes noticed that the most prominent photograph of a woman in The Sun newspaper was not Jessica Ennis, the brilliant young athlete who had just won gold at the London Olympics, but an unknown young woman with no clothes on.

The London market began the week in buoyant mood today after a ceasefire in Lebanon and a downgrade of the terror threat in the UK.

A UK travel company has teamed up with an Irish IT solutions company with the aim of taking on the online travel market in Britain.