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But the proportion of A-level entries awarded top grades has risen to all-time high.
Some 9.0% of entrants received an A*.
Regulator Ofgem said around 61,000 consumers were affected by the failures between 2017 and 2020.
People in lifejackets and masks were brought into the harbour aboard a Border Force patrol boat.
The tour operator reported underlying earnings of 1.1 billion euros (£995 million) for the three months to June after halting its holidays in March.
The system is ‘not working well’ and some funeral directors are not caring for the deceased properly, the CMA found.
The research was conducted with more than 100,000 volunteers using a finger prick test at home.
Saturday marks 75 years since Japan surrendered to the Allied forces on August 15 1945, ending the Second World War’s hostilities.
Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.
General Lord Richard Dannatt said those fighting in the Far East endured a ‘brutal’ war, but received little ‘limelight’.
It was not until August 15 1945, days after US atomic bombs fell on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that the battle in Asia was won.
The Chindits were a special fighting force tasked with disrupting Japanese communications and supply lines during the war in the Far East.
More on Britain’s A-level controversy and the train crash in Scotland lead the Thursday papers.
Yellow thunderstorm warnings have been issued for much of England, Wales, parts of Northern Ireland and southwest Scotland.
Tests were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and calculated grades will be used instead.
School leavers are receiving calculated grades after this summer’s exams were abandoned due to the pandemic.
Among the dead were the 6.38am Aberdeen to Glasgow service’s driver, named locally as Brett McCullough, as well as the conductor and a passenger.
Gavin Williamson has ruled out England following Scotland on exam grades.
Council leader Roger Gough said the local authority’s child reception centres were filling up ‘very, very fast’.
Some of those who had recovered from Covid-19 reported chronic fatigue, memory loss and muscle weakness.
