The Royal seal of style approval: Royalty has inspired fashion for as long as there’s been royalty, and anyone who dates, and marries, a prince is a subject of fascination from head to toe. As the Cambridges prepare for their visit to Ireland next week, Rachel Marie Walsh rates Kate’s style legacy, from safe unfussy high street pieces to subtle hints of rebellion with Alexander McQueen

The investigation focuses on the Vatican prelate who signed the contracts for the deal.

Robert Hume, author of The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper’s Victims, unearths the extraordinary rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of Mary Jane Kelly (‘Ginger’), who fell prey to the infamous killer

The herbaceous perennial was in a different guise at Bloom, where it caught the eye of Peter Dowdall.

Bloom proved that you can have an environmental message and still be ‘showy’, says Peter Dowdall

The impact on Ireland’s food of key societal and historical changes, over the past 8,000 years, will be illustrated by one of the show gardens at the five-day Bloom festival, which begins at the Phoenix Park in Dublin today.

Brexit meant the Chelsea Flower Show was an all-UK affair, but it didn’t disappoint Peter Dowdall.

The Royal Horticultural Society’s annual flagship event, the Chelsea Flower Show kicked off on Tuesday morning. Widely regarded as the top flower and garden show in the world a medal at this festival which runs this week at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea can send a career to that of a superstar in the Horticultural world.

Summer is show time for gardeners. Top designer Paul Hervey-Brookes tells Hannah Stephenson how best to prepare.

Matt Jones: With wood, you work with what nature provides you with. It’s as you find it and the woodturner’s job is to show off those colours and that grain

The Food on the Edge symposium (October 22-23) returns with a gathering of chefs and food personages, from home and abroad, assembling in Galway for talks, panel discussions, and masterclasses, led by joint MCs, chef/restaurateur JP McMahon (Galway), chef Matt Orlando (Copenhagen), and Sasu Laukkonen (Helsinki).

The Sustainable Seafood Garden hooked the top prize at Bloom yesterday.

The pair have been together for six years and three children together.

A fashion designer accused of murdering her French nanny was charming and manipulative with a violent streak, an ex-boyfriend revealed.

Shares in building suppliers Grafton Group have risen over 1.25% after it said it had bought London specialist decorators’ merchant firm Leyland.

Antonio Conte says time is running out in the title pursuit, even if Manchester City slip up, and said the clear leaders had been lucky with late goals.

The owner of a world-class plant collection in Kerry is set to realise his greatest professional ambition by exhibiting at next May’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

A 20-acre landbank on the northside of Cork city holds the key to paying off the €23m debt Cork GAA is left with following the redevelopment of Páirc Ui Chaoimh.

Passengers were evacuated from Holborn station in London's West End today amid reports of a fire.

Community leaders are appealing to the head of the council at the heart of the Grenfell Tower fire in London to cut ties with the organisation responsible for managing the high-rise block.

Police hunting a jogger who knocked a woman into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge have arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, Scotland Yard said.

More than 100 offers of long-term accommodation have been made to survivors of the Grenfell Tower blaze.

Councillors have warned Conservatives against selecting a "continuity" candidate to become the new leader of the local authority at the centre of the Grenfell Tower fire.

A total of £202,000 of British government money has been handed out to 180 families who were directly affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Allium schoenoprasum are also known as chives, onions and garlic, says Peter Dowdall.

Companies, individuals and charities have sprung into action to offer help to anyone affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Some garden shows have deeper roots than others but all have grown and thrived, writes Peter Dowdall.

Peter Dowdall reports from a small scale but gold medal-strewn Chelsea Flower Show ‘17. 

Videographer Dan Linehan is checking out the sights and sounds of the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

The world of showbusiness collides in London this week with the world of gardening in the form of the colourful explosion that is the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

An Anglo-French investigation into suspected tax fraud in football has seen several men arrested in dawn raids at Newcastle United, West Ham and France.

A federal judge has blocked any attempt by the Trump administration to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with US immigration officials.

Peter Dowdall on the work that goes on behind Chelsea Flower Show, organised by designer, Tom Harfleet.

Rachel Marie Walsh puts the latest beauty products to the test.

Organisers of the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat races in England will decide later whether the event will go ahead after an unexploded Second World War bomb was found near the starting line.

Chelsea 3 Arsenal 1: The annual post-mortem into the death of Arsenal’s title challenge started long before this demoralising defeat, even though some experts claimed to see life in the fading beast before kick-off. Not now.

Nigel Farage is sharing his London house with a French woman politician who heads a think tank at the centre of an investigation into the alleged illegal funding of Ukip, it has been reported.

Ciara McDonnell meets the Irish designers making waves on the sartorial world stage

Antonio Conte was in no doubt about the significance of Chelsea’s club record, 12th successive league win.