Rush-hour commuters faced severe delays as the 24-hour strike by London Underground workers placed huge demand on the rest of the capital's transport network.

Up to 150 jobs are to be created as Ireland’s first ever international satellite television channel, IrishTV, is launched.

One Direction have been given a year's worth of free cab journeys by a London minicab firm.

Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.