GCSE passes dip after tougher exams Grenfell Tower pupils enjoy ‘good day’ In the days after the fire, Ines missed exams in history, RE and physics which has affected her overall grades. “I wish I did more, but then again, I don’t know… For the exams I missed, I didn’t do too well in them overall [the subjects],” she said. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“The first thing I grabbed was my Chemistry notes”: Ines, 16, on sitting her GCSE the day after the fire Sacred Heart High School headteacher Marian Doyle called her results “fantastic”. “It […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe technology has already been trialled in the Netherlands using two lorries, with the lead truck having control Small convoys of partially self-driving lorries will be tried out on major British roads by the end of next year, the government has announced. A contract has been awarded to the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to carry out the tests of vehicle “platoons”. Up to three lorries will travel in formation, with acceleration and braking controlled by the lead vehicle. But the head of the AA said platoons raised safety concerns. In the platoons, […]

A letter to Peter Corfield, chair of Ludlow Hospital League of Friends, from Ms Ditheridge and chair of the trust Mike Ridley, said: “The presentation of men dressed as female nurses in a highly-sexualised and demeaning way is wrong, very outdated and insulting to the profession.” Mr Corfield said the bed-push fundraiser had taken place every summer for decades involving men from the local community and was “light-hearted”. He said proceeds from this year’s event had been earmarked to provide ECG machines for the outpatients and minor injuries departments at Ludlow.

Image copyright Alex Rotas Image caption The 87-year-old long jumper Ake Lund, from Finland, leaps into bronze medal position in his age group, clearing 2.77m “I started when I was 60, which is when I realised there weren’t any images of older sporty people and being an older sporty person I knew they were out there. I did an internet search and once you put the word ‘old’ in you just get those pictures of older people slumped in chairs. So I thought ‘wow, there’s a gap worth filling’.” Image copyright Alex Rotas Image caption GB’s Barry Ferguson, 71, and […]

He claimed that austerity measures had largely affected the working population, with pensioners suffering “relatively little” after the financial crisis. Young people, he said, have the added problems of “prohibitive housing costs, growing job insecurity and limited career progression”. “The old have comprehensively shafted the young,” added Sir Vince. “And the old have had the last word about Brexit, imposing a world view coloured by nostalgia for an imperial past on a younger generation much more comfortable with modern Europe.” The newly-elected party leader warned that describing such “masochism” as martyrdom was “dangerous”, adding: “We haven’t yet heard about ‘Brexit…

The light-hearted comments came during an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 2015. Kenneth Astill Wilkinson Born 29 June 1918, Barrow-in-Furness Educated at Cheltenham Grammar School Called up 1 September 1939 Completed flying training and converted to spitfires joining 616 Squadron and then 19 Squadron in October 1940. Left RAF in 1945 Became a quantity surveyor with one of his projects being Birmingham New Street station Source: Battle of Britain Memorial Trust Mr Wilkinson leaves a daughter, Penny, and a grandson, Piers. The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said he had been an active […]