BRITISH school pupils who were victims of homophobic bullying were told by teachers to act “less gay”, a report says.

Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer in the UK said today they would defend themselves against charges of false accounting arising from their claims for parliamentary expenses.

BRITISH police are carrying out an investigation after a cook was found dead in a freezer at the primary school where she worked, it emerged yesterday.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares closed down 54.87 at 6278.28.

Airlines were today given the green light to continue advertising flights at less than their full cost on the internet, said trading standards officers.

BUDGET airline Ryanair misled travellers about the cost of flying with a rival firm, a British court was told yesterday.

Detectives are attempting to discover what drove a policeman to killing his wife and two of his sons with a claw hammer before taking his own life.