Classroom assistants in the North will return to the picket lines today after one of their unions rejected the latest offer from management on pay and the regrading of their jobs.

The Ulster Teachers Union has teamed up with the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities to lead the fight against racism in the North's schools, it was announced today.

Dell has announced that it has been appointed by Amey for a ten-year period, as the computer hardware supplier for the People's Network - one of the most ambitious province-wide