A chat and a chance meeting on a train led to the creation of a new online store which makes a virtue of selling items which are sustainable and traceable, but which also have a strong design ethic, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

The Division has come to the streets of London in a unique art installation using the graffiti artists who also worked on the game

Faith Ryan takes her pick of the beautiful and useful to make any interior glow with autumn’s light.

Anti-gentrification activists daubed the word ‘scum’ on an east London cafe in a “terrifying” attack.

Anyone travelling to London next week shouldn’t miss the London Design Festival taking place across the city until the end of this month.

He’s an obscenely talented chef that unusually also has a great head for business. Roz Crowley finds Mark Hix has lots of advice for people dreaming of opening a food business.

Age: 33

The Irish are no strangers to crisp sandwiches, so it comes as no surprise to hear the world’s first crisp sandwich café, located in Belfast, sold out within two hours of opening its doors yesterday.

Suzanne Harrington is sick of it all. Sick of their facial hair, their bikes, their faux veganism and most of all, hipsters’ pretentious and herd mentality

Come in humanity, your time is up.

Irvine Welsh has written his first American novel and he tells JP O’Malley that two of the main characters "are more like me than anything I’ve ever written"

In honour of London Fashion Week, Claire Droney hangs out in the city’s coolest spot — Shoreditch.

It’s a Thursday night in trendy Shoreditch, in east London, and outside of one of the numerous cool-because-they-say-so pubs hidden away from the main street, there’s a queue to get in and see four lads from Ireland play loud rock music.

EastEnders must reflect changing east London – and its trendy district Shoreditch – after being “frozen in aspic” for too long, the soap’s new boss has said.

Russell Brand has confirmed he is "in a relationship".

MONDAY, 6.40pm, day two of my daughter’s hospital admission.

SINCE I was a kid, we always had a family dog.

A COUPLE of days in London is fun, but I was commandeered to go by my publisher and my long-suffering editor, to finish my latest book, 30 Years of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.

London is still on a post-Olympics high, and no district of the city is more fashionable than the former stomping ground of gangsters the Krays, writes Dave Kenny

Carol O’Callaghan showcases the Irish element of the influential London Design Festival which takes place next week.

Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, has written on his new album about his father’s suicide. Members of Green’s family are not pleased. The outspoken rapper was criticised for condemning the London rioters, but as the victim of a near-fatal assault, he felt obliged to comment, says Ed Power.

IT’S rare that the opening of a corporate office can be regarded as really good news.

A suspected rogue trader was being questioned today after Swiss banking giant UBS discovered €1.48bn worth of unauthorised deals.

EVERY year I take the Ballymaloe Cookery School teachers on a skite to London to eat, drink and be very merry all in the way of research.

THE National Asset Management Agency has re-appointed receivers after a deadline for property developers Ray and Danny Grehan to meet a €660m demand for payment expired yesterday evening.

Boy George wrote a song about Amy Winehouse when he was in prison, it has been revealed.

Shamed pop star Boy George has been hit by the credit crunch from his prison cell - his clothes store has been closed down after suffering huge losses.

Boy George was starting a 15-month jail term tonight for a “humiliating” attack on a male escort.

Singer Boy George was convicted today in London of falsely imprisoning a male escort.

THE jury yesterday retired to consider its verdict in the case of pop star Boy George, who is accused of falsely imprisoning a male escort.

A MALE escort who claims singer Boy George beat him after handcuffing him at his flat “can’t really be relied upon”, a jury was told yesterday.

A male escort who claims singer Boy George beat him after handcuffing him at his flat “can’t really be relied upon”, a jury was told today.

BOY GEORGE chose not to give evidence yesterday in defence of allegations that he handcuffed a male escort to his bed and threatened him.

A male escort who claimed he was chained up and beaten by Boy George sold his story to a magazine because he wanted money to leave the country, a court heard today.

Singer Boy George chained a male escort to his bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain as he tried to escape after a naked photo shoot, a court heard today.

FORMER Culture Club singer Boy George will stand trial in February charged with falsely imprisoning a male escort by chaining him to a wall, a court ruled yesterday.

Three of the four July 21 would-be suicide bomb suspects are thought to be in custody this afternoon.

A second man has been arrested in London in connection with the investigation into the attempted bomb attacks on the capital’s transport network, police said today.

POLICE have released images of the four suspected suicide bombers who tried to bring more death and carnage to London on Thursday.