LAURE PROUVOST’S win of the Turner Prize for 2013 is the latest in a long line of surprises that have helped keep the visual arts award in the news.

A blank gallery where people engage in conversations about the economy and a huge naked humanoid figure are to battle it out for the UK’s best-known art award, the Turner Prize.

A regency rent table is among the feature lots at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on Sunday week (Apr 7) at 4pm. The auction will feature a collection from Ummera House, Timoleague, home to the Cresswell family. It was amassed over two generations.

A BARRISTER in a £33 million (€38m) race row lost an appeal against her conviction for sending abusive emails to a former boyfriend who left her for a German model.

Indian leaders began voting for a new figurehead president today, with the father of the country’s missile programme almost certain to win.