Motorists in the UK have been warned of dangerous conditions on the roads and air travellers of potential disruption as snow and ice hit large swathes of the country.

The father of a 14-year-old girl who ended her life after enduring months of online bullying had told his daughter to stop using a controversial website in the run-up to her death.

Controversial question-and-answer website Ask.fm has announced it will be implementing a number of changes to improve safety.

A father whose daughter took her own life after cyberbullying has pleaded for legislation to tackle the problem to no avail. We need to hit these sites where it hurts, he tells Claire O’Sullivan.

British supermarket group Asda created more than 2,000 shopfloor jobs today as part of the radical shake-up that cost hundreds of management posts last week.