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A pencil said to have been gifted to Adolf Hitler by his lover Eva Braun has sold at auction for £5,400, well short of the expected £50-80,000.

Over half a million people in Northern Ireland are currently on a waiting list for medical treatment, Westminster’s NI Affairs Committee has been told.

Bear Grylls may be a born survivor with a persona that shouts he holds no fears, but there is still one thing he doesn’t particularly like doing - appearing on television.

A Northern Ireland principal says he is deeply frustrated after learning that a £32m building scheme for his school has been postponed.

Children in Northern Ireland are reading up to three years above their age reading level, according to the new What Kids Are Reading report.

When Eamon Deeny sat down to plan Agreement 25 — a major conference to honour those who brought the 1998 peace deal together — he had a series of stellar names on the wish list.

It is a journey that symbolises the direction of travel which Belfast has been on over the last 25 years.

A UNION has called for urgent reform after a teacher was forced to express breast milk in a car park following her return to work from maternity leave.

One of the post-primary schools which best reflects the community it serves is Blackwater Integrated College.

Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided society when it comes to the education of our children. Department of Education statistics published below show there is still a long way to go before our education system begins to resemble those in the rest of the UK, where parents choose the post-primary school their children will attend based on location rather than religion.