A method of communicating using a communications device via a wireless access interface to perform device-to-device communications, the method comprising configuring the communications device with at least one of an indication of one or more first communications resources of the wireless access interface which can be allocated on request to the communications device by a mobile communications network for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices or receiving signals from the one or more other communications devices in accordance with the first mode of operation, when the communications device is within a coverage area provided by the mobile communications network, and an indication of one or more second communications resources of the wireless access interface which can be used by the communications device for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices or receiving signals from the one or more other communications devices in accordance with a second mode of operation using a device to device communications protocol, when the communications device is within the coverage area provided by the mobile communications network, and receiving, from the mobile communications network, an indication of whether the communications device can use at least the second communications resources of the wireless access interface for performing the device to device communications protocol in accordance with the second mode of operation, and depending on the indication provided by the mobile communications network and the configuration of the one or more of the first communications resources, transmitting signals to the one or more other communications devices via the first communications resources allocated by the mobile communications network in accordance with a first mode of operation or receiving signals from the one or more other communications devices via the first communications resources, or depending on the indication provided by the mobile communications network and the configuration of the one or more of the second communications resources, transmitting signals to the one or more other communications devices via the second communications resources or receiving signals from the one or more other communications devices via the second communications resources in accordance with the second mode of operation using the device to device communications protocol, wherein the indication received by the communications device of whether the communications device can use at least the second communications resources of the wireless access interface for performing the device to device communications protocol in accordance with the second mode of operation is dependent upon one of a plurality of priorities of resource pools, the one of the plurality of priorities of resource pools being associated with the second communications resources of the wireless access interface, the plurality of priorities of resource pools comprising resource pools for use by communications devices not in a coverage region of a base station, resource pools for use by communications devices on the edge of a coverage region of a base station, and resource pools for use by communications devices in a coverage region of a base station.