More action is needed than just restricting pupils’ access to mobile phones, Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT, said.

A status orange rain warning has been issued for Co Wicklow. A series of yellow weather warnings are also in place across the island. Met Eireann said that heavy rain in the area could cause localised ...

A British woman has died in a cable car crash near Naples, according to an Italian official. The Briton and an Israeli woman were among four people who died in the crash after a cable snapped on ...

Helston Town Band is gearing up to perform at a sold-out show. They will perform alongside a screening of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, in a special event at the Princess Pavilion in Falmouth.

US vice president JD Vance has arrived in Rome for meetings with the Vatican’s second in command and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh off the Italian leader’s visit to the White House a ...

Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez said she is ‘delighted’, while awaiting further instructions from the Independent Office ...

The Eden Project's Rainforest Biome will host a special BBC Live Lesson on Earth Day. The lesson, which will be available on the BBC Teach website from 9am, and broadcast on CBBC and BBC iPlayer at ...

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday appeared at the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem’s Old City.

In a filing released late on Wednesday, the The Hague-based court initiated non-compliance proceedings against Hungary after ...

The US secretary of state said Washington may be ready to ‘move on’ if there is not progress on a peace deal in the coming days.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander signed off on the order that restricts aircraft from flying below 2,000 feet at Sandringham “for reasons of public safety and security”. The order states: “These ...

The tradition of only eating fish on Good Friday comes from a Catholic rule of not consuming the meat of warm-blooded animals on Fridays. When this rule was decreed by the Catholic Church, many opted ...