The decision to suspend striking teachers’ pay in Northern Ireland will be reviewed if they agree to seek mediation, the education minister said today.

Teachers expected to join industrial action at a secondary school in the North called today for independent mediators to become involved.

A woman commuter was thrown onto a railway line after telling two youths to stop smoking on a station platform near London today.

The number of health trusts in the North is being slashed from eighteen to five under changes introduced today.

A new report shows a frightening level of suicidal behaviour among our population, writes Catherine Shanahan.