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Moments of joy for A-level students from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds
It's been A-level results day for students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and despite all the disruption caused by the pandemic, record numbers of them have won top grades. 


Streatham terrorist inquest shown dramatic footage of his final moments
Dramatic footage showing the final moments of Sudesh Amman's life after he was shot by undercover police has been shown at his inquest.


‘Nobody should be diminishing those results’ A-level students have achieved, says Universities Minister Michelle Donelan
We spoke to the Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and began by putting it to her that if you can't compare these results to any other year - as her boss Gavin Williamson said - then doesn't that defeat the point of the exam system?


Record number of Scottish students win university places despite slight fall in Highers passes
In Scotland, pass rates in Highers and Advanced Highers have slipped since last year, but they're still far above pre-pandemic levels, as Scotland’s education secretary praised students for achieving such strong results "under extraordinary circums...


Record high in top grade A-level results
There’s something to celebrate for students whose education has been disrupted for another year by the pandemic - a record number of A and A* grades in A-levels in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. 


Prince Andrew ‘can’t ignore judicial process’, says Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer
We spoke to Virginia Giuffre's lawyer David Boies - he's also chairman of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner - and began by asking him what was being alleged about the involvement of Prince Andrew in her coercion. 


Virginia Giuffre sues Prince Andrew in US over alleged sexual assault
An American woman who says she was a victim of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has filed a lawsuit in New York, accusing Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was just 17.


Mother dies after calling police seven times about abusive boyfriend
Daniela Espirito Santo died after her boyfriend assaulted her hours after he was released on bail for attacking her earlier in the day.


Torrential rain sees Londoners’ homes flooded with sewage
The stark warning about the future of the planet by the United Nations report into climate change, included increased flooding and this summer, parts of London have been inundated three times in as many weeks.


Lukashenko says UK should ‘choke’ on new sanctions
The authoritarian Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has accused his opponents of planning a coup and mocked the Olympic sprinter who fled to Poland. 


Scotland lifts most Covid restrictions
Scotland has lifted most of its Covid restrictions from today, allowing nightclubs to open and increasing the limit on crowds allowed at sporting events, although wearing face masks in places like shops and public transport remains compulsory. 


How Team GB turned their Olympic fortunes around
In today’s episode, our sports reporter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan takes us not just through the events in Tokyo but the revolutionary changes of the National Lottery and UK Sport in the 1990s that has paved the way to Team GB’s success.


‘We can walk forward with confidence with new insurance scheme’, says Parklife festival co-founder
A £750 million pound insurance scheme to back live events has been announced by the government.


Young mother who left her daughter to starve to death is jailed for nine years
A teenage mother who left her toddler daughter to starve to death has been jailed for nine years.


No 10 defends PM’s decision not to isolate after staffer tests positive for Covid
Downing Street is tonight defending the prime minister's decision not to self-isolate, despite one of his staff members testing positive for coronavirus during a visit to Scotland.



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