Arbitrators asked to settle a dispute between Britain and the European Union over post-Brexit fishing rights have given a mixed ruling, the Permanent Court of Arbitration said on Friday.

The UK does not have to reverse its post-Brexit ban on sand-eel fishing designed to protect puffin populations, an international court has ruled after the EU attempted to overturn the policy. The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled on Friday that the UK is not legally obliged to reverse bans in English or Scottish waters,

The European Union has won a landmark case against the UK at the world's oldest arbitration body over post-Brexit rights to fish sandeels, a tiny North Sea species.