82 of students have successfully got into their first Choice University an increase of 3 from last year. Top A Level results have risen for the first time since 2021 with just under 28 of all grades marked at a Star Or A. Thats up from 27. 2 last year. Our correspondent Nicky Schiller is live at Burnley College as students receive their results the excitement has been compelling this morning. Welcome to Burnley College. You can see behind me, it is sending out a bit at the moment, but there are still some students coming in. Tell tale signs on the floor, there is a lot of confetti, blue and white confetti that is still on the floor and that was because hundreds of students were here at eight oclock this morning. I arrived just after seven oclock, they were all here, the college had given them breakfast, they were having coffee and chatting, it was at eight oclock we were allowed to open those envelopes to find out what their results are. Of course, All Of Us who have been through any s
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and this is our kind of clubbing! why stumble home at two in the morning when you can be snuggled up in bed by 7pm? forget night fever, this is day fever the club night that s held in the afternoon. good morning. it s monday the 26th of february. our main story. the prime minister wil give more details today of how money from the abandoned leg of hs2 will be spent in the midlands and north of england. he ll hold a cabinet meeting in east yorkshire today, and will confirm that £4] billion will be spent on local transport projects but it won t be available to councils until april next year. labour has described the announcement as a back of a fag packet plan . our business correspondent marc ashdown reports. better transport connections for millions of people living in smaller cities, towns and rural areas. that s the promise from rishi sunak as he makes the case for cancelling the massive hs2 rail upgrade. the north of england will receive £2.5 billion over a seven year