Hurricane Ernesto – here’s how it could affect the UK’s weather next week
Hurricane Ernesto is roaming the western Atlantic Ocean. How could it affect the UK’s weather later next week?
The UK’s largest constabulary – the Metropolitan Police – has been given a bruising report by Government inspectors. They judged it to be ‘inadequate’ in investigating and preventing crimes.
We spoke to Hareen de Silva, a British doctor from the medical aid charity UK-Med.
We spoke to Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Kingston University, Professor Helen Laville.
Hundreds of thousands of students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are digesting the results of their A level, BTech and T level exams.
Bex Kerr is Project Manager at Doctors of the World. The organisation, in partnership with Doctors Without Borders, runs a mobile clinic at Wethersfield that she visits regularly.
It’s a former RAF base – deep in the Essex countryside – but it now accommodates hundreds of people who are seeking asylum in the UK.
Baroness Jacqui Smith is the new Minister for Higher Education. We spoke to her and asked if the record number of disadvantaged students getting a university place this year are actually getting value for money.
Hurricane Ernesto is roaming the western Atlantic Ocean. How could it affect the UK’s weather later next week?
The regulator says reliance on foreign fees is an “increasingly precarious model”.
We spoke to Sudanese political activist Amgad Fareid Eltayeb and started by asking him whether he thought the talks between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival Rapid Support Forces were futile.
Efforts to get fresh peace talks underway to resolve Sudan’s 16-month long war have run into trouble after neither of the warring factions turned up.
We were joined by Katharine Sacks-Jones, who’s chief executive of Become, a national charity for children in care, and Dr Mark Kerr, head of The Children’s Homes Association.
One big challenge for the new Education Secretary is the growing number of children in care, with the cost falling to cash-strapped local councils.
Inflation rose slightly last month, but by less than expected, with overall prices up by 2.2% in the year to July.
Scotland’s finance secretary has told ministers to cut back “all but essential” spending in order to fund public sector pay increases.