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
parts of aberdeenshire, northern ireland may be. temperatures into the late 30s, 33 or 30 full celsius in parts of the midlands and west london. it is not hot everywhere, whether friends zow towards the north west of scotland, outbreaks of rain here overnight. 0therwise, clear skies and it is a warmer night than last night. some places a tropical night, lows of around 19 or 20 celsius in parts of south east wales and the south coast of england. this hot air coming in from the near continent on a strengthening easterly breeze on friday. because of the easterly wind it could send low cloud lapping fenati facing coast tomorrow, limiting the temperature here somewhat. it is still cool and cloudy for the north west of scotland, but for most, blue skies, high temperatures and they will be rising. maybe 3a, 35 in the midlands, the south west midlands, the cotswolds and south west london, those places could see 37 celsius by the time we get to saturday, which will probably be the pea
energy bosses have held talks with the government to discuss plans to help customers struggling with soaring bills. ministers are promising more help in the coming months. a british man accused of being a member of the islamic state group is remanded in custody charged with terror offences. and the crisis of local swimming pools. the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past three years. hello. welcome to bbc news. welcome to bbc news. a&e departments in england had one of their worst months ever injuly, with record numbers of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted. this is from the latest monthly performance data from nhs england. and the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to a new all time high. 6.7 million. the ambulance are dealing with the most urgent cases took an average of 29 minutes longer took an average of 29 minutes longer to respond than injune. shadow health secretary wes streeting has told the b