Start your Monday Morning. A little bit of rain for some, even some Thunderstorms Mist and rain to start your Monday Morning. Good morning, its Monday 2nd september. One or two word 0fsted Inspection Grades for englands schools are being scrapped with immediate effect. Last year an inquest found an 0fsted Inspection had contributed to the suicide of primary headteacher Ruth Perry, leading to widespread calls for change. Headteacher Ruth Perry, leading the government said the overall grades werent fair or accurate, but the change was criticised by the conservatives for removing a vital indicator for parents. Heres our Education Editor Branwen jeffreys. After an inspection, Caversham Primary was but yes, its this. A relief, really, that no other Head Teacher will have to go through what ruth went through. So from today, overall Inspection Grades are scrapped, like good or inadequate. School inspection standards remain the same. And from september 2025, there will be a new Report Card for
Overnight we saw a 50 reduction in a candidate for Vice President. 00v as new zealands largest city is put back into lockdown your projects, live projects were investigate whether coronavirus could have actually being put on hold, so that re entered the country through freight shipments. Sport now. And for a full round up, was quite difficult, having to deal from the bbc sport centre, with that vanity business was heres holly hamilton. Working perfectly up until that good afternoon. Point. This weekends super League Matches todays figures show that involving hull fc and salford hard times are here. Have been postponed, hundreds of thousands of people have after six hull fc players and two already lost theirjobs, and sadly many more will. Members of their Coaching Staff senator Kamala Harris makes history tested positive for coronavirus following their game on sunday. After shes named asjoe bidens president ial running mate five of those hull fc players the first black woman to be a can
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. 80 years ago, hundreds ofjewish children were smuggled out of nazi occupied europe by train in a covert humanitarian mission which became known as the kindertransport. My guest today, Dame Stephanie shirley, was one of those children. She went on to live an extraordinary life of achievement and philanthropy, blazing a trail for women in business. So, what lessons can we learn from a woman determined to make the most of a life so nearly extinguished in childhood . Theme music plays. Dame stephanie shirley, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Weve invited you almost 80 years exactly 80 years from that moment when you were forced to leave your home. Your father put you on a train its called the kindertransport and you ended up in an alien country, in london, in england. What do you remember of that journey . Well, of course, i was only five years old, so all the things that i remember, the childish things. I remember the little boy that
England governor, mark carney, warns about the world facing irreversible heating unless firms shift their priorities soon. Raging bush fires are burning out of control across australia, with authorities in the state of victoria saying its now too late for people to evacuate. Temperatures are exceeding a0 degrees in every state. Police investigating the deaths of three british tourists who drowned in a pool in spain on Christmas Eve say it was an accident and that the case can now be closed. Now its time for hardtalk, as Stephen Sackur speaks to Dame Stephanie shirley, one of hundreds ofjewish children smuggled out of nazi occupied europe. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. 80 years ago, hundreds of jewish children were smuggled out of nazi occupied europe by train in a covert humanitarian mission which became known as the kindertransport. My guest today, Dame Stephanie shirley, was one of those children. She went on to live an extraordinary life of achievement and philanthropy, bl
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. 80 years ago, hundreds of jewish children were smuggled out of nazi occupied europe by train in a covert humanitarian mission which became known as the kindertransport. My guest today, Dame Stephanie shirley, was one of those children. She went on to live an extraordinary life of achievement and philanthropy, blazing a trail for women in business. So, what lessons can we learn from a woman determined to make the most of a life so nearly extinguished in childhood . Theme music plays. Dame stephanie shirley, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Weve invited you almost 80 years exactly 80 years from that moment when you were forced to leave your home. Your father put you on a train, its called the kindertransport, and you ended up in an alien country, in london, in england. What do you remember of that journey . Well, of course, i was only five years old, so all the things that i remember,