Mark Bain

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been told the restoration of Stormont “can’t come quickly enough” by teachers who have been left waiting three years for a resolution to an ongoing pay dispute.

South Eastern Regional College (SERC) is set to shed almost 60 teaching jobs across full and part-time staff in a move the college says is ‘due to budgetary pressures’.

Schools across Northern Ireland will remain closed on Wednesday morning as teachers stage their third strike action of the year in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions.

Ballyhenry Primary in Glengormley has become the latest Northern Ireland school to embrace transforming to integrated status as parents have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the change.

Pupils have been sent home from a south-east Belfast primary school following the discovery of collapse-prone concrete material in an eight-classroom block.

Teachers took to the picket lines on Wednesday, with the promise of more action to come if a resolution to the pay and conditions dispute cannot be reached.

The Sunday Times has named Londonderry’s Lumen Christi College the leading secondary school in Northern Ireland.

Four voice actors from Northern Ireland are among 174 from across the UK who have helped to record a new audiobook to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.

A Ballymena woman has had to spend two nights away from home to guarantee she’ll make it to work in Belfast during a public transport strike on one of the busiest Fridays of the year.

To the casual observer, they were a quite unremarkable set of rusty old keys when they went under the hammer in August 2007. However, looks can deceive.