Name: Natasha Crowley

Finger bling — the best way to accessorise that glass of bubbly

Make mathematical shapes part of your fashionable equation.

It’s an unwritten rule — if you want to see Festival Fashion at its finest, you’ve got to go to the Electric Picnic. Journalist Paula Burns teamed up with photographer Barry Cronin to capture the coolest EP fans last weekend

Rose Ballerina, one of the few roses at Villa Marie, is a standard of Ballerina which is repeat flowering from late spring through to autumn. As a standard, it has few equals and it can be successfully placed amid the herbaceous border or even used as an ornamental hedge.

A gambler would surely have been given long odds for a fashion stakes double so it was hats off yesterday to Margaret Connolly from Mullingar, Co Westmeath, who was judged best dressed lady at Cheltenham, having emerged equally triumphant in a similar competition at Leopardstown less than a month ago.

It’s been a grim week for the Irish at Cheltenham so far but not for Margaret Connolly who yesterday came up trumps with a most unexpected double on Ladies’ Day.

FALLING consumption levels led first-half losses at electrical goods retailer, Dixons Retail to widen by over £18 million (€21m).

Dionne Bromfield will perform at the Look fashion show during London Fashion Week, where Sarah Harding will make her catwalk debut.

MANAGEMENT at the Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin have denied that a row over rents is to blame for the loss of more than 100 jobs.

Up to a 104 positions are to go following an announcement from the Arcadia Group that it is to close eight stores in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in Dublin.

TOPSHOP and Topman were the only stores in the Arcadia portfolio of stores to generate an operating profit in Ireland last year.

THE sterling crisis notched up a gear yesterday, as the pound edged closer to parity with the euro, sinking to a record for the ninth day.

The Icelandic investment group that owns a host of retailers including Hamleys today denied it was looking at placing its UK business into administration.

Philip Green is today reportedly looking to conduct a strategic view of his Arcadia empire as he looks to ramp up the expansion of Topshop.

The recovery of retail chain Marks & Spencer is expected to continue next week when the high street giant publishes its results for the first half of the year.

The recovery of Marks & Spencer is expected to continue next week when the high street giant publishes its results for the first half of the year.

British retail tycoon Philip Green today said he had secured a windfall of more than £1bn (€1.8bn) from his Topshop-to-Burton fashion empire.

Marks & Spencer said today that its grip on the UK clothing market was still weakening after sales declined for the seventh quarter in a row.

Dorothy Perkins-to-Burton billionaire Philip Green is to expand his retail empire in a battle for customers with rival Marks & Spencer.

Dorothy Perkins-to-Burton billionaire Philip Green is to expand his retail empire in a battle for customers with rival Marks & Spencer.

Takeover target Marks & Spencer is to return £2.3bn (€3.4bn) of cash to shareholders and focus on its core business as part of a strategy unveiled by chief executive Stuart Rose today.