Oxfordshire County Council introduced the advice for transgender pupils last year, saying they should be able to use the toilets of their identified gender. The council has withdrawn the advice.

'Buddy system' is to be introduced tomorrow on Belgium's Mothering Sunday. Similar ideas are being contemplated in the UK.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: In the midst of all this, in the midst of the lockdown and my dad in a care home no one can visit any more and my mum reaching for her shopping.

You don't have to struggle to find the perfect present for Father's Day as we've tracked down grooming gifts galore to make him look, feel and smell like a new man

GLENN HODDLE: As I stood by the touchline for a television interview after England’s game against Belgium, it was a bonus to see Dele Alli out on the pitch enjoying a good training session.

The 23-year-old has established himself as first-choice centre-back, starting 18 of the Toffees' last 19 league matches, and has been mentioned for a potential England call-up.

Light looked stunning in a couture dress by Badgley Mischka when she arrived, at the Tony Awards in New York City, Sunday night. The 70-year-old star of Transparent shined in silver on the red carpet.

Selena Gomez was again feeling nostalgic as she took to Instagram to post another throwback photo of herself at about 2 years old. The singer, 27, poses with her hands placed at the side of her face.

LG is fighting malaria and dengue in India with the power of sound waves. The South Korean firm has launched a line of TVs and an air conditioner that produce sound waves to paralyze mosquitoes.

After the incredible drama of Wednesday's World Cup matches, Groups G and H could well provide a similar level of excitement. Here, Sportsmail runs through all the permutations...

The UEFA Nations League inaugural weekend continues tonight as Italy host Poland, while Scotland are also in action in a friendly with Belgium. Follow the action here with MICHAEL SEARLES .

He recently lost an impressive three stone by overhauling his diet and sticking to a gruelling work out regime. 

Nora Quoirin (pictured right), who has learning difficulties, had been on a family holiday at a resort near Seremban, around an hour south of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Nora Quoirin, 15, from London, was on a two-week 'trip of a lifetime' with her family at a resort in the Malaysian town of Seremban, near Kuala Lumpur, when she disappeared.

Azly Yozof, 29, met his real life doppelgänger at his friend's wedding in Malaysia over the weekend, as his best-friend capture the hilarious moment on his phone.

The devastated mother of Nora Quoirin read an emotion tribute poem for her daughter today, as friends and family gathered at the service in Belfast.

A visibly indignant Pope Francis had to pull himself away from a woman in a crowd in St Peter's Square today after she grabbed his hand and yanked him towards her.

Kroger, which also owns Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer and other store brands, announced Monday that it will cease all e-cigarette sales after selling through its current inventory. Walgreens followed suit.

CRAIG HOPE: For a country who have long since struggled for goalscorers, to unearth three news ones made this friendly entirely worthwhile for Mick McCarthy's men.

The man, named only as Mohammed E, was arrested in Brussels shortly before Christmas and charged with supplying the Kalashnikov rifles used to murder 130 people in Paris.

Belgian media have claimed Salah Abdeslam was tracked to a house in Molenbeek on the Sunday night after the attacks, but he had gone by the time police were able to carry out a raid.

The incident is said to have happened at a police station in Ganshoren, near Molenbeek where officers were searching for suspects following the attacks on November 13 that killed 130 people.

CCTV footage shows Salah Abdeslam and his friend Hamza Attou, who later admitted they had spent the morning smoking marijuana, near the Belgian border on November 14.

Investigators probing last year's terror attacks in Paris have found footage of a senior Belgian nuclear official shot outside a house in Flanders, indicating that the terrorist were spying on them.

Footage from the arrest of Paris terrorist attacker Salah Abdeslam in Brussels shows the moment he is shot in the leg as he tries to flee police - and dropping a note as he is taken down.

In a stirring sign of mass defiance, thousands have posted images that show the boy from Brussels' Manneken Pis statue - who is depicted urinating into a fountain - relieving himself on ISIS jihadists.

The group unveiled its so-called 'Op Brussels' today in which it vowed to continue 'hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their Bitcoins'

A beat officer gave information about the whereabouts of Salah Abdeslam to superiors in December, citing the address he was finally apprehended at, but the report was not passed on.

Armed police swooped during a daylight raid in Uccle, Brussels as part of continued investigations into the atrocity, which left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.

Strolling through a Brussels market without a care in the world, this is captured Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam in new footage shot before the attacks on the French capital.

Although Belgium's national terror threat centre was told about the photo in October, security officials failed to take a closer look, it has been claimed.

The Paris region has seen a 6.4 per cent decline in tourists in the first half of 2016, officials said on Tuesday. They blamed terror attacks as well as strikes and floods for the slump.

The two men are accused of helping two other suspects who Austria extradited to France earlier this year through 'logistics as well as through gathering information and arranging contacts.'

John Taylor, who abducted and murdered teenager Leanne Tiernan in Leeds in 2000, pleaded guilty to 16 offences - included three of rape - committed against victims in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against ICE claiming New York officers rigged algorithms to always recommend people arrested for immigration violations be detained.

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, who hosts the show with Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris, revealed they have decided against cutting the film from the new series.

Ah, the good ol' days. But before you get too misty-eyed about your childhood, don't forget what it was really like, says Flic Everett

Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned religious pilgrims from visiting Mecca or Medina to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the Kingdom

The umrah - which, unlike the hajj, can be undertaken at any time of year - draws millions of Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia every year (some of whom are pictured in Mecca today).

The fashion designer, 45, and her former footballer beau tucked into buttery escargot, mounds of chips, dover sole and berries covered in clotted cream during their trip to Paris.

Catherine Tyldesley got into character once more in a bizarre cooking video during lockdown on Tuesday.

The Coronation Street star, 36, donned a brown wig and a drawn-on unibrow to remind fans to keep at least two metres away from others during the coronavirus lockdown.

The actress, 50, appeared on Tuesday's edition of Lorraine to discuss breaking boundaries for playing the first-ever transgender character in a serialised drama from 1998 until 2014.

The former prime minister met Wilfried Martens on the fringes of a European Council summit in Greece in December 1988 for the testy exchange.

He's a Hollywood favourite thanks to his rippling muscles and beefy frame.

Elisabeth Moss played the role of princess on the red carpet in cream-colored ballgown with black sash for the 2019 SAG Awards in Los Angeles.

The singer, 34, said being friends with the singer, 30, is one of his 'favourite things he's done' as he discussed their friendship with Attitude magazine's February issue on Friday.

The singer, 34, was forced to hit back at criticism from trolls after saying he took 'a little bit of ownership' for helping Taylor Swift support the LGBTQ+ community.

Taylor Swift has been announced to be receiving the 2020 Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for her ongoing work for the LGBTQ Community.