Schools evacuated across Scotland and Northern Ireland after nearly 800 receive 'bomb threats' in second wave of suspicious emails

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Pupils in some areas of Northern Ireland and Scotland - including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and the Highlands - were sent home for the day after a suspicious email was sent.

Published: 10:56 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 11:27 GMT, 11 November 2026

Schools in parts of the UK were evacuated today after receiving more hoax bomb threats in suspicious emails as headteachers activated 'emergency protocols'.

Some pupils were sent home for the day following the threats to schools in Scotland including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and the Highlands as well as in Northern Ireland.

Detectives have confirmed the messages were immediately investigated and do not 'represent a credible threat', advising staff that there was no need to close.

But officers were seen outside schools in some locations, while at others pupils were huddled under foil blankets to keep warm as temperatures plunged this morning.

More than 270 schools in Scotland are understood to have received a threatening email about a 'device', after the message was sent to distribution lists across the UK.

At least 300 schools in Northern Ireland also received the email. In addition, Gardaí in the Republic of Ireland are investigating a series of threats made to schools. Italy's education ministry also said more than 300 schools received bomb threat emails.

Some headteachers who decided to close urged parents not to pick up their children, as they instead tried to organise emergency transport to get them home.

It comes after another nationwide bomb threat hit schools in Scotland last month, when they received other malicious emails which were also identified as hoaxes.

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