degrees in the south east until that line of heavy showers moves through. then look at this for the weekend, something much quieter, a brief respite. a ridge of high pressure building for saturday, and for sunday it holds on in the south waste before this next spell of wet and windy weather arrives across northern areas for sunday. so a fine day for all on saturday, finding the south but wet and windy elsewhere on sunday. that s it from me. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at six on thursday the 6th of october. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. hello and welcome to sportsday, i m lizzie greenwood hughes, here s a look at what s coming up on tonight s show. it s off. after a day of speculation, saturday s eubankjunior v benn fight is postponed. wales and scotland get read
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
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heatwave and drought in parts of the uk for autumnal conditions, which are already being seen in england a month ahead of time. also coming up in half an hour, it s talking business. the momentum behind women s sport is at fever pitch after england win the european football cup but is the money finally flowing in to level the playing field with men? good afternoon. train passengers are facing a further day of disruption after thousands of rail workers started another 24 hour walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. across the country, only around 20% of services are running. the government say the strikes could be ended if the unions put the pay deals on offer to their members. this report from our correspondent, helena wilkinson. a now familiar sight for rail passengers across the rest of the country half empty stations, weekend plans and services severely disrupted. we had to leave early from home due to the strike action. obviously it will take a lot of time to g