Several schools across Birmingham, south-west London and Paris have closed suddenly today following reports of 'security threats'.

Police are understood to be on the scenes of those schools affected but a Met Police spokesman confirmed the threats were being treated as 'malicious communications', The Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

This comes just days after a Russian Twitter group was thought to be behind a series of bomb threats which saw thousands of pupils evacuated from 14 schools in Britain and six in Paris.

At least five Paris high schools have been evacuated this morning after bomb threats were made for the second time this week.

Source: MENA