After another school year of online classes and disrupted learning, there’s finally some good news for students across the country today – excellent A-Level results.
Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a whopping 44.8% of exam-takers achieved A* or A grades
The city’s results show a small increase in high-achievers since last year, when 40.7% of students got A*-A grades, and a big one from 2019 when only 26.9% did.
Meanwhile, 88.9% of our future leaders scored A*-C grades, which is mighty good work
Compared to the rest of the country, young Londoners excelled in creative subjects like art, drama and design and technology, as well as languages, sciences and maths.
Interestingly, though, they didn’t do quite as well in business, economics and politics as the rest of England
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It’s been 18 years since Peter Jackson wrapped his beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Now, after a prolonged period of Hobbitlessness, fans will finally return to Middle-earth courtesy of Amazon
The show remains shrouded in mystery, with media reports generally focused on the Smaug-sized price tag ($250 million for the rights, $465+ million for production).
But with filming wrapped and a release date cresting the horizon of 2022, some details have emerged...
Grindah: ‘To be honest, the whole movie-star thing comes pretty naturally for me. I’ve always been told I have a face for radio, so where better to present it than on the big screen?’
⭐ What were negotiations like with the film's producers?
Chabuddy G: ‘I just said: “Listen, these boys are superstars and we want 10,000 yen up front in cash or the deal’s off.” Later on I found out that’s around 70 quid, so I quickly retracted the offer'
Last March, lockdown set in and tourism was put on pause in Amsterdam.
For the first time in forever, there weren’t tens of thousands of travellers gawping at girls, lighting up in coffeeshops, ordering poffertjes and stroopwafel on every corner.
Amsterdam breathed
Now it wants to carry on breathing.
The Dutch capital has brought in a raft of measures to improve life for locals and create a more sustainable future for the city.
Here are some initiatives we’d like to see in other cities too 👇
This summer has been a particularly weird one, weatherwise.
Last month, London experienced a wild heatwave, with Heathrow temperatures sneaking past 31C on July 18. Then the following week, tube stations and hospitals were submerged in water after a series of flash floods
Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a landmark scientific report.
It said global temperatures are set to rise by 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades, and flooding is projected to rise in all regions except the Mediterranean
‘I’ve lived [in Dalston] my whole life. I’ve kind of seen it go from undesirable, and, you know, quite a dodgy place, to being hipster central. And that’s all happened within my lifetime. It used to be a lovely mix of everything'
⭐Jade, Radio producer, Lewisham
‘In job interviews, me saying I’m from south-east kind of puts a thing in interviewers' minds, like: Oh, have you been involved in any criminal activity? I’ve been in interviews where someone said: “Oh, you have a really, you know, English name”
This three-bedroom nineteenth-century Cotswold stone barn boasts a natural swimming pond just outside the back door – a happy middle ground between your local lido and wild swimming
📌North Rock Beach House, Cornwall
This is, frankly, Bond-villain levels of luxury. North Rock Beach House is perched on a cliff above Sennen Cove, one of Cornwall’s loveliest beaches. So the views from the pool and loungers are absolutely ridiculous