LAST October Ken Hanson came over from California to visit his aunt and cousins in Leitrim and yesterday his relations were celebrating his return to the county of his ancestry as he claimed the first yellow jersey of this year’s FBD Insurance Rás in Ballinamore.

Dulux paintmaker Imperial Chemical Industries today officially fell into the hands of new Dutch owner Akzo Nobel, marking the end of an era for an icon of British industry.