TICKETS have just gone on sale for what promises to be another epic Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The October Bank Holiday event will feature more than 1,000 musicians from 29 countries.

LES PAUL, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died yesterday. He was 94.

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multi-track recording died today aged 94.