Customers in a West Cork town have moved beyond the reusable shopping bag — they are using everything from empty wine bottles to glass boxes to stock up on household essentials at a new ‘minimal waste’ store.

Online shopping and the international chains are a big threat to the shops that mark us out from every other city and town in Europe. They’ll only remain if we support them writes Ailin Quinlan

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist who came to call West Cork his home, writes Noel Baker