scotland s education secretary, john swinney, will present a plan today to address problems with the way school pupils were awarded grades this year in the absence of exams. yesterday, the first minister, nicola sturgeon apologised for the method used, where the marks given to pupils were based partly on the past performance of their schools. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has more. it has been a tough few days for 16 year old olivia and her dad, david. her dreams of studying medicine, after she got results that bore little resemblance to what she was predicted, for now on hold. i wasn t really nervous at all because i kind of knew what i was expected to get. then i opened up the results and i was completely devastated. i was heartbroken. literally, i thought my dreams were crushed. after days of defending the process, a u turn from scotland s first minister, who said she wasn t prepared for young people in more deprived areas to think the system is stacked against t
the pressures heaped on the nhs and england by the coronavirus pandemic have been highlighted by new figures showing a record 1.8 million people injune having to wait longer than the 18 week target for routine treatment. more than 50,000 have waited over a year and there is a real concern cancers are being missed or diagnosed late because urgent referrals are down more than 20% injune compared to last year. our health editor reports now on some of the ways the nhs is trying to tackle the backlog. remember the nightingale hospitals? this one is in exeter with more than 100 beds but with no coronavirus patients right now, part of the sites being put to a different use, patients coming in for scans for a range of conditions. the scan will take three or four minutes, we will tell you to breathe in. carol has lived with cancer for several years. this scan is for a possible complication that doctors want checked out. you okay? she says it s a much easier process than her usual hosp
that is tricking out your home and office with thousand dollars fish. all that and more over the next hours. first let s get headlines from su keenan. ahead of the widely anticipated jobs report out filedow, fewer americans applications for unemployment benefits over the past month and that any time in the last seven years, a sign that the labor market is continuing to bounce back. officially raining in high-frequency training trading and monitoring secret trading. cross traders who use computers for rapid fire stock trading now have to register with the sec. in an agreement reached by senate negotiators, help is on the way to veterans hospitals. and you plan now allows the hiring of more doctors and nurses to reduce the long wait for veterans. one senator referred to the problem as a crisis. much, su keenan. general motors out with details today about its internal investigation into why it took the automaker more than a decade to identify problems with defective ignition
hour. first let s get headlines from su keenan. ahead of the widely anticipated jobs report out tomorrow, fewer americans filed applications for unemployment benefits over the past month and that any time in the last seven years, a sign that the labor market is continuing to bounce back. officially reining in high-frequency trading and monitoring secret trading. prop traders who use computers for rapid-fire stock trading now have to register with the sec. in an agreement reached by senate negotiators, help is on the way to veterans hospitals. a new plan now allows the hiring of more doctors and nurses to reduce the long wait for veterans. one senator referred to the problem as a crisis. thanks very much, su keenan. general motors out with details today about its internal investigation into why it took the automaker more than a decade to identify problems with defective ignition switches linked to 13 deaths. the report blames bureaucratic delays and a culture of incompeten
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