Now its reversing that trend. From the pulpit to politics the Anti Vaxers who refuse to change their tune as the Delta Variant sweeps through americas south. India dominate england at lords on the first day of the second test. And Coming Up In Sportsday later in the hour on the Bbc News channel, theres a busy night of European Football ahead, Celticjust One of the british sides involved in Europa And Europa conference league qulaifying. Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. More than half A Million Gcse Students in england, wales and Northern Ireland have achieved another set of record results, with both the proportion of students getting top grades and those achieving pass rates rising slightly from last year. It follows a second year in which exams were replaced with the assessments of teachers. As with A Levels a couple of days ago the numbers offer new insights into secondary education. Girls moved further ahead of boys, with a third of them scoring top grades, while for
Today at six: another batch of record results this time it s the proportion of top gcse grades that s nudged higher 0h, oh, my god! i ve got seven! a second year of teacher assessed results raise questions about regional differences and girls move further ahead of boys. there no words for it, really. it s just utter relief, at this point, as soon as i opened my paper and i saw the results that i ve got. today the schools minister accepted that disadvantaged children have fallen behind during the pandemic. also tonight. the pain, the anxiety, the helplessness the plight of patients in england trapped in another rise in the nhs waiting list. keeping up with demand the uk shrunk more than many other countries in the pandemic,