Mobile phones

The police told MPs that a big proportion of violent crime is related to mobile phone theft.

Two schools in Berkshire are asking students to hand phones in at the start of the school day.

Kush Chaudary had his phone stolen outside a Soho bar. Within minutes, thieves changed his passcode and stole from his banking apps.

Campaigners warn smartphones "can cause a whole host of problems" for school-aged children.

The World Health Organization recommends children under five spend no more than one hour a day looking at a screen.

Principals from the South Belfast Primary Partnership said they noticed children are owning their own smartphone at increasingly younger ages.

The principals says they noticed children have smartphones at "increasingly younger ages".

A head teacher says pupil exclusions for violence reduced "almost overnight" when phones were banned.