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is already facing winter pressures with people being told to avoid a&e. the i leads on the tory leadership campaign truss blow: voters want hand outs, not tax cuts its headline. in the guardian, nhs cannot be put on a pedestal quoting after prime ministerial candidate liz truss, who the paper says called for cuts. the daily mail tomorrow has an attack on nhs, accusing the health service of spending £1 million on woke groups for their staff. on the front page of the mirror, fergie s case for the defence after former manchester united manager sir alex ferguson testified in the ryan giggs trial. the express says the migrant crisis to last at least five more years. and finally, the financial times weekend pages carry a warning about a market rally from the bankers of wall street. do you want to kick us off with the front page of the times? michael gove bows out with a potshot of liz truss. it gove bows out with a potshot of liz truss. , . , ., truss. it is a
on his mobility scooter police arrest a man on suspicion of murder. it is not clear what they are trying to target. moments later, it s clear we are the target. explosions. a special report from the front line in ukraine on the troops using drones to attack russian positions. and she s back another big win for emma raducanu as she prepares to defend her us open title. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we ll have the latest from lord s as england take on south africa in the first test of the series. good afternoon. hundreds of thousands of pupils in england, wales and northern ireland have been getting their a levels and btec results today the first group of students to sit formal exams since the pandemic. the proportion getting top grades has fallen from last year though it s higher than 2019, the last time there were exams. the drop in the highest grades is likely to mean tougher competition for first choice places at university. the first new technical or t lev
and at how the pandemic has this cohort of 18 year olds. also on the programme. the killing of 87 year old thomas o halloran, who was stabbed on his mobility scooter in west london a man is arrested. another rail strike leaves only one in five trains running with widespread disruption for passengers. and divers say they struck gold off the isles of scilly when they found the us warship which sank during world war i. and coming up on the bbc news channel. south africa take a lead in the first test as engalnd desperately try to limit their advantage on day two at lord s. good afternoon. there s been delight but also disappointment on results day for hundreds of thousands of teenagers across england, wales and northern ireland who ve had their studies severely disrupted by the pandemic. almost 850,000 a levels were taken this year and the proportion of top grades fell compared with the last two years, although they are still higher than before the pandemic. these pupils w
that fell between midnight and 6am. and you can see how extensive that was in the intensity of the rain but some areas actually had hardly any painful at all and this is the problem with showers, they are very hit and miss. and next cause for concern is the showers in the south east. there is a number weather warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the day today. we could see as much as 50 millimetres injust today. we could see as much as 50 millimetres in just an today. we could see as much as 50 millimetres injust an hour and may be as much as 100 millimetres plus before the days through the plenty of showers through the afternoon, quite a lot of cloud generally through england and wales. the best of the sunshine in the east of scotland and parts of northern ireland. noticeably fresher here. and if you dodged the showers further south and east with some sunshine you could see temperatures peaking at 25 c. through the evening and overnight most showers fading awa