significant, the government would say, with the exam board returning to pre pandemic examination is all part of the plan. if you are trying to compare your results this year with last year s much higher one, you shouldn t do that. and the same way you shouldn t do it to 2019 because the circumstances are not exactly the same, but it is the road map to improving. briefly, there has been a big regional disparity with, for instance, wales, 25.1% getting capital a and a , 37 in northern ireland and a disparity that is significant between london and the north east. significant between london and the north-east. , ., ., north-east. let s get more on those gcse results north-east. let s get more on those gcse results today. success summed up. i felt like i was missin: success summed up. i felt like i was missing out success summed up. i felt like i was missing out but success summed up. i felt like i was missing out but i success summed up. i felt like i was missing out but i feel
small percentage of the student and we must also say that cambridge technical as well have been delayed so the exam board looking after those, and they think it is a few hundred in each case, really hard to know because most exam boards refuse to give us a number but i ve been contacted today and all weekend by students around the country who are really concerned because they are still waiting for the university place to be confirmed and even though the university place will be held until september, they may not get the results they want or cannot get the results they want or cannot get through clearing, so if they do better than they think, they can actually apply for a space to left on a university case but they ve all been taken up. accommodation is going on around them and they cannot do anything about that because they cannot access student loans until they get the result, so they are stressed as can be. and they will be
so there is a bit of toing and froing about where exactly the blame lies but what is being said is for any students that are concerned to please contact the exam board or else to contact the university so that place can be held.- else to contact the university so that place can be held. sewage discharges at popular british seaside resorts are not being monitored properly. that s the claim from the liberal democrats, who say that, 90% of the time, monitoring devices have not been installed or don t work. last week more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in england and wales were hit by pollution warnings, after heavy rain. today, downing street accused water companies of a completely unacceptable failure to reduce sewage discharges. a spokesperson for number 10 said the companies should put customers before shareholders or face fines. richard galpin reports.