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
Good morning. A swathe of cloud across eastern england, through the midlands, Northern England come into the south west and that is producing a bit of rain at the moment and either side of that is sunshine and a few showers today. I will have all the details throughout the programme. Its wednesday the 15th of may. A major manhunt is under way in france after two Prison Officers were killed in an ambush on a police van. The attack happened at a toll booth near rouen in normandy, and police said the man who was freed has links to a gang in marseille. Our europe correspondent, nick beake, has the latest. An unremarkable tollbooth in northern france, and the scene of a swift and brutal ambush. Cctv Footage Shows the Moment A Dark Car Veers into a white prison van, and at least two masked attackers start shooting. Terrified passengers on a passing bus throw themselves to the ground as the bullets ring out. One assailant is seen strolling calmly among the other vehicles on the motorway. Then
there is the article, cost of living help is coming, something we will tackle in a moment. the sunday express says britain s business are being urged to get ready for a trade deal predicted to open up a post brexit market of around half a billion people. the sunday telegraph follows the conservative race to become prime minister as candidate liz truss pledges to halt the exodus of nhs doctors and clear the surging back log and waiting lists. and the observer has a picturesque autumn photo, and yet it s the middle of august experts say heatwaves and dry weather has pushed trees into survival mode. nice and viable mode here. we have lots to get through. we ll start with the sunday times and the story about the universities. what s the story, daisy? about the universities. what s the story. daisy? story, daisy? this is probably the best story in
special about us is everyone has got a story. we all believe in each other, we ve been glued to each other, we ve been glued to each other all week, other, we ve been glued to each otherall week, because other, we ve been glued to each other all week, because we want to be. we love each other, man, honestly. after a medal laden commonwealth games, jake jarman, joe fraser, courtney tulloch, giarnni regini moran and james hall took a stunning team gold in the gymnastics at the european championships. it was a huge winning margin too with fraser impressing on parallel bars and jarman on floor and vault before finishing off in style on the high bar. it s ten years since gb won this team event. lois toulson and andrea spendolini sirieix have picked up their second gold medals at the european aquatics championships in rome. the duo took top spot in the women s synchronised ten metre platform final ahead of ukraine and germany. spendolini sirieix also won the individual ten metre platform tit
for? she has been a shape shifter when for? she has been a shape shifter when it for? she has been a shape shifter when it comes to her reign political journey when it comes to her reign political journey. we ll have to see what happens but we ve got no numbers at the moment on how much this is going to cost the moment on how much this is going to cost the the moment on how much this is going to cost the taxpayer to sort out this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will be this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will be high this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will be high up this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will be high up in this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will be high up in the - this pension arrangement. it sounds like that will be high up in the in - like that will be high up in the in tray for liz truss, another thing higher up, whoever takes the prime minister rol