GCSE students in Northern Ireland will have their results decided based on teachers’ predictions, after the controversial moderating system was scrapped. Just days before the grades were due to be published, the devolved government announced it wanted to “ease anxieties” among pupils and their families. The move piles pressure on the UK government to follow
Month: August 2020
A video has shown Melania Trump appearing to refuse to hold husband Donald Trump’s hand as they stepped off Air Force One. Footage, which has been widely shared online, shows the First Lady, 50, navigating the steps from the presidential aircraft in high heels while trying to hold her dress down in windy conditions. However,
More than £37bn worth of property sales were agreed in July – the busiest month for home buying for 10 years, according to property website Rightmove. The spike follows a suspension of the housing market during the coronavirus lockdown, but also coincides with the UK plunging into a recession. The chancellor also cut stamp duty
7:03 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Make it three in a row on the road for Chase Elliott. NASCAR’s most popular driver won the Cup Series road course race at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, holding off hard-charging Denny Hamlin following a late restart and notching his third consecutive victory away from
August 16th, 2020 by Johnna Crider In a Q& A with BloombergNEF, Google’s Jeff Hamel, Director of Industry Partnerships at Google, shared his thoughts on how the coronavirus may speed up the low-carbon shift. The clean energy industry, along with essentially all other industries, felt the 1-2-3 punches of the Covid-19 pandemic that is still
Filming on the set of the next Matrix film is back under way in Germany, becoming the latest film to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic. Keanu Reeves, who plays main character Neo in the dystopian films, has praised the way in which the production team has worked to get filming off the ground again in
Elon Musk says that Tesla is finally going to push 2-factor authentication to secure customer accounts after what he describes as being “embarrassingly late”. The increasing connectivity in vehicles has made them more subject to hacking in recent years and there’s no more connected vehicle on the road today than Tesla’s. The CEO has been
Evelyn Gosnell is considering a Covid-19 test ahead of a camping trip. Evelyn Gosnell Evelyn Gosnell and some friends are planning a camping trip next month for a birthday celebration. Gosnell, a Bay Area-based behavioral scientist in her 30s, said the group has agreed to quarantine for two weeks ahead of the trip to reduce
Wearing a face mask is to become mandatory in public places in Italy overnight while nightclubs have been ordered to close due to a spike in coronavirus cases, according to reports. Masks will need to be worn where social distancing is not possible between 6pm and 6am, while the closure of nightclubs and dance halls
The Post Office is to appoint one of its army of postmasters to its board for the first time as part of its bid to move on from the multi-million pound scandal which left some of its managers wrongly sent to prison. Sky News has learnt that the government-owned company will announce on Monday that
Liverpool’s world-famous Cavern Club – which helped launch The Beatles – is facing closure due to the coronavirus lockdown. The club’s director said the venue was facing financial ruin after losing £30,000 a week since mass gatherings were banned in March. Bill Heckle, director for the past 28 years, said 20 members of staff have
People walk by a T-Mobile store in San Francisco, California Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Earlier this summer, players of a T-Mobile Tuesdays giveaway contest took to Reddit to discuss a strange discovery: The company in certain weeks gave away tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars in gift cards, prizes and cash to winners. In one
Four young men have died after a car crashed into a house and burst into flames on the A4 in Wiltshire, police have said. The “absolutely horrific” crash happened in the early hours of Sunday and all four, who were locals and inside the car, died at the scene. Wiltshire Police say the car crashed
6:41 PM ET Associated Press OCEANPORT, N.J. — Pneumatic won the final race worth points for the Kentucky Derby, cruising to victory in the $150,000 TVG.com Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Ridden by Joe Bravo, Pneumatic took the lead with about a quarter of a mile to go and got to the finish
Senior Conservative MPs are calling on Boris Johnson to consider delaying the publication of this week’s GCSE results until the problems with A-levels have been resolved. The prime minister is under pressure to intervene to end the deepening A-levels crisis in England, amid growing anger among pupils, teachers and MPs, including from his own party.
The government and the exams regulator are being threatened with legal action as pressure mounts for a rethink over the awarding of A-level grades. Hundreds of angry students are demonstrating in Westminster, with some chanting “get Gav gone” and “come out Gavin” as they protested outside Education Secretary Gavin Williamson’s departmental building. Footage has also
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