British Isles to Disappear From the School Map

The British Isles will soon be erased from geography text books in Ireland. Folens, a publisher in the republic, has announced it will remove any reference to the term "British Isles" in the next edition of its world atlas for schools. The decision follows a complaint from a teacher.

Used for centuries as an all-encompassing description of all the islands to the north-west of the European continental shelf, the British Isles has been dismissed as a hangover from the empire. A spokesman for Folens described it as a "potential problem" that would be rectified.