Jackie is joined by three students who've received their results today. 

We need wild bees. They pollinate 70 of the 100 crop species that feed most of us.

The Scottish MP Margaret Ferrier has pleaded guilty to putting people at risk by travelling across the UK while she had covid.  

The resumption of Ukraine grain exports is especially important in some parts of Africa, where in many communities food security has become perilously insecure. 

In the thick of this long hot summer of bitter recriminations and stalemates, you may be asking - how will the UK’s summer of strikes and travel chaos all end?

In the latest episode of this summer's series of rail strikes, half of Britain's lines were closed today, with only 20 per cent of services running. 

Earlier Jackie spoke with the minister for School Standards, Will Quince. 

It’s A-Level and T-Level results day.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/thefourcast/220722_RE_TORIES_V2-auphonic.mp3 We’re down to the final two. We know our next Prime Minister will be either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak. But what will the party and country look like with someone new at Number 1...

We were joined by Lord Owen, a health minister in the 1970s and a long-time campaigner on behalf of contaminated blood victims.

We spoke to Jason Evans, whose father died in 1993 after contracting HIV and Hepatitis C from contaminated blood.

Our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald joins us from the newsroom.

Thousands of survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim compensation payments after the government agreed to grant £100,000 to the surviving victims, as well as bereaved partners. 

A Leeds university student has been sentenced to 34 years in prison in Saudi Arabia, after she returned to her homeland for a holiday. 

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has admitted sending “aggressive” and “threatening” messages to his former girlfriend at his trial today.