Here are the main numbers and trends in this year’s GCSE results: – The proportion of entries receiving the top grades has risen from last year and remains higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic. A ...

The number of pupils receiving top grades in GCSE examinations in Northern Ireland has risen. Results have been delivered to more than 32,000 pupils across the region. The provisional results show ...

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.

Pupils from schools across south London are opening their GCSE results today after months of hard work and anticipation.

Vienna is to host the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after Austria’s act JJ won the 2025 event with his song, Wasted Love, in Basel, Switzerland. The city will become joint fourth on the list of places ...

The Office for National Statistics said the borrowing of £1.1 billion is the lowest July figure for three years.

The Copa Sudamericana game between Independiente and Universidad of Chile in Buenos Aires was halted with the score at 1-1.

More than 200 Ofcom complaints have been lodged against the hit ITV soap opera Emmerdale because of  "uncomfortable" scenes aired before the watershed. The television regulator revealed that around ...

A man from Thornton Heath has lost his leg after his family say "doctors repeatedly ignored warning signs of a life-threatening infection".

Coldplay met as students at UCL in Bloomsbury and their early gigs were played in Camden Town including one under the short lived name Starfish ...