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.

Highlights include Joe Brolly's moving tale of donating his kidney and the return of Irish Pictorial Weekly.

Teeming with common lodging houses, and home to a criminal underworld of murderers, pornographers and child gangs, TV show Ripper Street is back tonight for a second series.

I am researching the Irishman, Francis Tumblety, born near Dublin circa 1830, who in later life became one of the chief suspects in the Jack the Ripper case in Whitechapel 1888.

The brother of a former 'EastEnders' actress appeared in the dock today accused of murdering his sister and dumping her torso in a canal.

A former 'EastEnders' actress was murdered and dumped in a canal after attending a high-profile hospital opening ceremony, UK detectives revealed today.

The London Olympics will be opened by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said today.

Two BBC television dramas will be filmed here this year in what is being hailed as a major coup for the Irish Film Board.

Peaches Geldof won't get married for at least another two years.

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.

A YOUNG man seen in a distressing video being beaten and mugged — and becoming one of the most arresting images of the disturbances so far — is recovering in hospital with a broken jaw.

Rock star Pete Doherty will not face criminal prosecution over the death plunge of partygoer Mark Blanco.

The family of an actor who died at an east London party attended by ex-Libertines singer Pete Doherty have threatened private prosecution if the police fail to bring charges.

Pete Doherty spoke to police officers today about the death of an actor at a party he attended, his solicitor confirmed.

A HANDYMAN who ruined a school caretaker’s life by planting child pornography on his computer was jailed for 12 years yesterday.

A post-mortem examination is to be carried out today on the body of a schoolgirl who died after falling 15 floors from her London tower block home.

The death of a 14-year-old boy almost three weeks after he was stabbed marked a new low in Britain’s knife crime crisis tonight.

ELY, the property arm of Newcourt Group, has acquired a site for the development of student accommodation in London in a €28.5m deal.

HANDWRITTEN notes in which the police officer who led the hunt for Jack the Ripper names the man he believes is the killer went on public display yesterday.

A MAN was shot by police in London in a massive anti-terrorist raid yesterday.

Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been found guilty of a series of race hate and soliciting to murder charges by an Old Bailey jury.

Rocker Pete Doherty was arrested for a second time yesterday on suspicion of possessing of drugs - just hours after being released from custody.

The voice of alleged preacher of hate Abu Hamza was heard for the first time by an Old Bailey jury today.

THE first funeral for the victims of last week’s London bombings took place yesterday afternoon. Shahara Islam, 20, from Plaistow, east London, was buried at a private service.

Architect William Walshe was tonight recovering from burns and lacerations after being caught up in the terrorist bomb attacks in London.

AT least seven people were killed in the first blast in a tube tunnel at 8.51am, but eyewitnesses spoke of seeing many bodies in the wreckage of the train.

TWO youths were recovering last night following separate savage attacks.

A member of Madonna’s production crew was injured in an accident today during preparations for her Re-invention tour.

Hospitalised West Ham boss Glenn Roeder, who today left intensive care to prepare for brain nerve surgery, is expected back at work as early as mid-June.

WEST HAM manager Glenn Roeder remained in a stable condition at Royal London Hospital last night.

A man who was released from prison yesterday after 26 years behind bars insisting he was innocent of murder, should not have had a verdict returned against him at his 1976 trial because he was suffering from mental illness at the time, the Court of Appeal announced today.

A man who has spent 26 years in prison protesting his innocence of murder today had his conviction dramatically quashed by the Court of Appeal in the UK.

The woman who died after being run over by a pair of handbag thieves was a talented BBC costume designer.

A murder hunt was under way in London today after a woman who chased two handbag thieves was run over and killed by their getaway car.