John Lancaster tells the Irish Examiner about his Mini Cabriolet and how it was love at first sight.

FROM lazy indifference to the first faint simmerings of indignation to a global outcry for action to end African poverty - the positive universal response to Live8 bore delightful testimony to the lofty, not-so-crazy ideals of one Irishman.

AN ALBUM featuring exclusive tracks from rock stars Ash, REM and David Gray was released yesterday to raise money for people driven from their homes in Sudan’s troubled Darfurregion.