Theyll face wolves next, if they beat sevilla tonight. Its National Allotment weekend we have come to dorset road allotments, where the temperature is currently around 22 celsius. For those of us in the heatwave, it will continue for another two days but there is also the risk of heavy thundery downpours, which could lead to flash flooding. Details coming up. Its tuesday, 11th august. Our top story. Scotlands education secretary, john swinney, will explain today how he will address problems with the way School Pupils were awarded grades this year, in the absence of exams. The first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has apologised after the marks given to pupils were based partly on the past performance of their schools. The process meant that 125,000 results were downgraded. Alexandra mackenzie reports. 16 year old 0livia thought she was on track to study medicine. She got five as in her higher prelims, but those were not the results awarded by the sqa. Instead she received two as and three b
Others making the same mistakes. Nesta mcgregor, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett here is chris fox. Thank you. More of this hot and humid weather to come, temperatures easing towards the end of the week but with sunshine, we get some big, thundery dampers. Not many of them today but where they do occur, they could bring localised flash flooding, thats true over the next few days from these very big storms that will be around. This afternoon, not many showers to come, lots of dry weather, the view that echoing across wales, the midlands, southern england could be torrential in nature and some of the showers in eastern scotland potentially slow moving. Temperatures well up into the 30s, 36 degrees in the south east, it will be a very hot and humid kind of day and overnight, we are looking up further thunderstorms purging north east. Lots of thunder and lightning mixed in with these, another uncomfortable and one night for sleeping. These are the temperatures a
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Which clearly is not looking fit for purpose. The government itself is clearly acknowledging that by announcing more and more changes to it. And you can get in touch with me about any and you can get in touch with me aboutany up and you can get in touch with me about any up to lack of stories using my handle or using the hashtag. Senator Kamala Harris makes history after shes named asjoe bidens president ial running mate the first black woman to be a candidate for Vice President. As new zealands largest city is put back into lockdown experts investigate whether coronavirus could have re entered the country through freight shipments. And many parts of the uk experienced dramatic thunderstorms overnight with some comparing it to being in the tropics. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im annita mcveigh. The coronavirus pandemic has now officially pushed the uk into recession for the first time in more than a decade. Figures published by the office for National Statistics this morning