Users data privacy. And, louisiana braces itself for hurricane barry, storm surges and heavy rain are expected later. Hurricane barry has made landfall, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Now it is time for a sports day. Hello and welcome to sportsday. We are alive at wimbledon on what has been ladys finals day. These are the headlines. Simona halep is the new ladies champion after a straight sets victory against Serena Williams. She played out of her mind, congratulations. Tomorrow it is the mens final as Roger Federer i another slice of history. He faces the defending champion, Novak Djokovic. And im olly foster at the bbc sport centre. Well head to lords ahead of the World Cup Final, england against new zealand, there will be a new champion. No pole for the World Champion at silverstone tomorrow, Lewis Hamilton isjust edged out by his teammate in qualifying for the british grand prix. And everythings coming up roses. A big win for england against scotland at the netball world cup
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
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