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

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The first stages of the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race began in the Wiltshire town on Friday, April 18, with the action to continue over the Easter weekend. This mammoth challenge is ...

A migrant has died after a medical emergency on a small boat in the English Channel. The RNLI confirmed it had launched its all-weather lifeboat and a group of migrants were brought to Dover in a ...

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 ...

Two cars, a Fiat Punto and a BMW, were involved in the smash but no injuries were reported. Police arrived at the scene and Simon Waite, a 38-year-old from Devizes, was charged with failing to provide ...

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 ...

The Force was with many Star Wars fan in Japan at an event where Lucasfilm announced that the next instalment in the franchise will hit theatres in May 2027.

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

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 ...

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.

Secretary of state Marco Rubio said that the US may be ready to “move on” from efforts for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is not progress in the coming days.