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This year’s candidates sat their first public exams after two years of teacher-assessed grades due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Elena and Rosa Launder are going to different universities after both getting three A*s after their studies at Millfield School in Somerset.

Teenagers across the country have been anxiously opening brown envelopes showing how they fared in key exams.

Ucas said 20,360 students found out on Thursday that they do not have a place at university.

GfK’s Consumer Confidence Index fell three points in August to minus 44, its lowest figure since records began.

When Martha Heaps’ family moved from the West Country to Highbury during lockdown, the 18-year-old did not want to disrupt her studies in Bristol.

The pass rate for A-levels at Peter Symonds College this year was 99%, with 40% of the grades awarded being at A* or A.

The latest YouGov survey of Tory members found 66% are backing Liz Truss against 34% who are supporting Rishi Sunak.

The independent MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.

The party has written to Boris Johnson demanding that MPs return early in order to freeze energy bills.

The network operator has introduced new technology to spot and block scam calls coming from overseas which pose as UK-based numbers.

The former Labour leader appeared at a picket line outside London’s Euston station to support striking rail workers.

James Livesey, 18, will now take up a BBC apprenticeship in software engineering.

The subject was pushed out of the top rankings after an increase in the popularity of geography.

Of 1,029 entrants, 92.2% passed.

The Education Minister faced questions about whether the leadership contest was appropriate during the cost-of-living crisis.

The writer’s family said he had been a ‘wonderful dad and a deeply caring man’.

Rajan will begin filming early next year and be seen on screen from autumn 2023.

Kyra Hill, who would have turned 12 on Thursday, died after going missing at Liquid Leisure, near Windsor, on August 6.

In Northern Ireland 44% of students received a grade A or above, compared with 29.4% in 2019.