changes to the results process in cardiff will be in place for students this summer. mared s parents still have unanswered questions and say they hope the university can make improvements because of mared. and if you re affected by any of the issues we ve just been discussing information is available from the bbc action line that s at bbc.co.uk/actionline the headlines on bbc news. the legal rule to self isolate us set to end within weeks, a month earlier than expected. the metropolitan police either be questioning more than 50 people at the of their investigation into alleged rules being broken at downing street. filmed kicking his cat and they have terminated the sponsorship of their defender.
the university says it will simplify its exams process to leave no room for confusion in future. bethan lewis reports. mared was in a second year at cardiff university, and she was 21. she received an e mail with results for her course and later that day she took her own life. is that there were lessons for the university. the e mail mared received indicated she had failed an assessment and couldn t move on to the third year. she had already passed a reset, but under the university s procedures, the recent results wouldn t be ratified until later. cardiff university s vice chancellor says they have listened to the coroners concerns who said the system was complex and confusing. we accept that there was room for confusion, as a coroner said, in the way that exam results were communicated. we have been doing that for a number
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of years but we do recognise that there is an issue there and we have already corrected that, it will no longer happen and exam results will be communicated in a way that there will be no room for confusion in the future. the university is also reviewing the language and tone used in result transcripts to make them as clear as possible. have you apologised to the family? i am deeply sorry for this sequence of events. it is a devastating set of circumstances and i absolutely understand the family s need to have answers, and i am happy to speak to mared s parents if that is what they would like. they say.
a bumper easter and summer, but many families who hoped for winter sun are having to wait a little longer. katy austin, bbc news. the charity commission is looking into the accounts of the foundation set up by the family of the ww2 veteran captain sir tom moore. accounts published by the captain tom foundation show that in its first year it spent more than 200 thousand pounds on running costs a nd co nsulta nts. it gave out 160 thousand pounds to charities in grants. the commission started looking into the foundation almost a year ago. the foundation says it s working closely with the regulator and welcomes its input. cardiff university has apologised to the family of a student who took her own life hours after being told she had failed an exam. pharmacy student mared foulkes from anglesey received the results email injuly 2020 but it didn t take account of her re sit which she d already passed.