hundreds of thousands of students received their exam results on thursday, allowing them to sort out their university places. but some btec students are still waiting to see how they did in vocational courses. exam board pearson won t reveal how many are affected but says it s a small percentage. the association of colleges isn t impressed. pearson won t tell us the numbers, but i know in some colleges there are several hundred students who haven t got their results from pearson. in any normal year there is a handful, perhaps, in a college. but hundreds is unprecedented. so we absolutely need pearson to openly investigate what went wrong, publish the findings and make sure this doesn t happen again. in a statement, pearson said: another exam board, ocr, is also apologising for delays in issuing cambridge technical s results, a vocational qualification with an emphasis on workplace skills. it says it has delivered more than 1,000 results in the last 2a hours. among those waiti
good evening, our countdown clock continues to kick away. 17 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. here we are back where we were last friday night and where we will be every friday night at this time, counting down to election day. early voting, election day is pretty much underway in a dozen states, where early voting has already begun, including georgia, north carolina, both starting up this week. each of those states home to a key senate race, both of which we will be talking about this hour and tomorrow. early voting beginning in nevada, and that is where democrats may face what is their toughest individual battle to hold the senate seat. we have reporters on the ground there and then does two other battleground states we mentioned, we ll be joined by them shortly. plus, we will hear from voters in michigan that is where the governor s race has heated things up a bit this week and where there is a refe
good evening, our countdown clock continues to kick away. 17 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. here we are back where we were last friday night and where we will be every friday night at this time, counting down to election day. early voting, election day is pretty much underway in a dozen states, where early voting has already begun, including georgia, north carolina, both starting up this week. each of those states home to a key senate race, both of which we will be talking about this hour and tomorrow. early voting beginning in nevada, and that is where democrats may face what is their toughest individual battle to hold the senate seat. we have reporters on the ground there and then does two other battleground states we mentioned, we ll be joined by them shortly. plus, we will hear from voters in michigan that is where the governor s race has heated things up a bit this week and where there is a referendum
good evening, our countdown clock continues to kick away. 17 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. here we are back where we were last friday night and where we will be every friday night at this time, counting down to election day. early voting, election day is pretty much underway in a dozen states, where early voting has already begun, including georgia, north carolina, both starting up this week. each of those states home to a key senate race, both of which we will be talking about this hour and tomorrow. early voting beginning in nevada, and that is where democrats may face what is their toughest individual battle to hold the senate seat. we have reporters on the ground there and then does two other battleground states we mentioned, we ll be joined by them shortly. plus, we will hear from voters in michigan that is where the governor s race has heated things up a bit this week and where there is a refe
at an emotianal concert to pay tribute to foo fighters drummer taylor hawkins, who died in march. the lionesses are going to the world cup. victory in austria sends england through to next summer s tournament in australia and new zealand. hello, good morning. we ve still got some heavy rain about at the moment. it will clear away northward, we will be left with a few showers, but also some warm shum shine. sunshine. i ll have more details later on. it s sunday the 4th of september. our main story: the foreign secretary liz truss who looks likely to become the next prime minister on tuesday has given her clearest indication yet of how she plans to tackle the cost of living crisis. writing in the sunday telegraph, she says she would set out immediate action on energy bills. her opponent, the former chancellor rishi sunak, says nothing is off the table to ease the pressure on households. ben wright reports. as borisjohnson as boris johnson packs as borisjohnson packs