General view of Edinburgh with a Scotland flag
Pupils were evacuated from schools in Edinburgh on Wednesday morning in response to the bomb threat. Photograph: Guven Ozdemir/Getty Images
Pupils were evacuated from schools in Edinburgh on Wednesday morning in response to the bomb threat. Photograph: Guven Ozdemir/Getty Images
Hoax bomb threats made to hundreds of schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Police assure parents and teachers that warnings were bogus despite pupils being evacuated from some sites

Hundreds of schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland were hit by a fresh wave of hoax bomb threats on Wednesday, with some sites evacuated as a precaution.