thousands of students received their btec results today,fications that are more career—focused, but can also gain entry to university. and why would you run almost 500 miles around the perimeter of yorkshire? we've been ca ntering round the county with the man doing just that. good evening. the italian prime minister has declared a 12 month state of emergency across the genoa region, in response to the motorway bridge collapse. at least 39 people are now known to have died after the morandi bridge gave way. the cause of the disaster isn't yet clear. rescuers estimate that at least 15 vehicles are still trapped in the rubble, but say they have little hope of finding more survivors. among those who had a narrow escape were a british family. james reynolds reports. can there be anyone left underneath all of this? to find out, rescuers will have teeth such and every broken concrete slab at signs of life from beneath the rubble have not died away. we haven't had any cries since yesterday, but we may still find survivors. looking up you can see s

so you guys all did btecs. why did you decide that?to be a midwife, so i thought health and social care would be perfect for me because it gives a lot of experience on the health side. and that was important for you? yes. i want to go in cyber security. so one day i'll be teaching primary school children how to programme robots. the next day we would be making at led displays. was it hard ? it was a little bit but for me i found with assessments easier than sitting exams. you are doing sport, how are you assessed? the course involves things like sports psychology and nutrition. we did work experience. i did tennis coaching. you have a job interview off the back of your course. what have you been doing? i was doing a btec level three in media, video games design. we had to learn about all sorts. computer mechanics, coding, art, pretty much everything. it is a varied course. what will you do next? i'm going to northumbria university to study to become a midwife, which has always been a passion of mine. i can see the excitement on your fa

there are loads of different courses — like diplomas, nvqs and btecs.is career was helped by his btec in sport. the way it was based, with coursework, made it a lot easier for me to work on a qualification whilst doing gymnastics at the same time. erm, the skills that i learnt, i can easily transfer over to my sport and how i run in business now. rhianne — who wants to work in cyber security, and kayleigh — hoping to be a midwife, are both off to uni. i got a d*, so a double distinction — the equivalent of, like, three as. yeah, at a—level. in a—level, yeah. amazing, well done. yeah, thank you. why did you decide to do vocational study rather than, like, a—levels? erm, it kind of was more suited to me because you do experience with coursework. i find with a—levels, it's generally like there's. .. well, like your gcses, you have this big exam at the end of the year and that's what your entire course relies on, whilst with btec, it's individual assignments. so, as well as doing coursework, i've also worked for a north east cancer charity and i've worked f

the rise in popularity of btecs.ents have been picking up their results. coming up on bbc news, celtic manager brendan rodgers criticises the club's lack of spending as they miss out on the lucrative group stage of the champions league. 20 years ago today, a bomb exploded on a shopping street, on a saturday afternoon, in the town of 0magh. it was the worst single attack in the long conflict in northern ireland — killing 29 people, and two unborn children. people in 0magh will commemorate the anniversary this afternoon in a series of events, as our ireland correspondent emma vardy reports. as if in permanent remembrance, 0magh exists each day under the shadow of this terrible atrocity. many here are still coping with the consequences of the bomb which was detonated on the town's main high street. i'll never forget the last time i saw aidan. he walked out of the kitchen and looked back and says, "i'll not be long." michael gallagher's son aidan had gone to town that day to buy a pairofjeans. the sound of the bomb, whic

there are loads of different courses — like diplomas, nvqs and btecs.ess now. rhianne — who wants to work in cyber security, and kayleigh — hoping to be a midwife, are both off to uni. i got a d*, so a double distinction — the equivalent of, like, three as. yeah, at a—level. in a—level, yeah. amazing, well done. yeah, thank you. why did you decide to do vocational study rather than, like, a—levels? erm, it kind of was more suited to me because you do experience with coursework. i find with a—levels, it's generally like there's. .. well, like your gcses, you have this big exam at the end of the year and that's what your entire course relies on, whilst with btec, it's individual assignments. so, as well as doing coursework, i've also worked for a north east cancer charity and i've worked for the elderly. this is where i do all of my coursework... and it‘s notjust for the young. linda decided to do a diploma in art in herfifties. it‘s something i‘ve always wanted to do and i thought, i don‘t want to look back in years to come and say, i wish i had. yeah. s

with btec, its individual assignments.t cancer charity and i've worked for the elderly people, doing like a tea dance. employers really, really rate vocational qualifications, the reason being that these are equipping graduates with a number of practical skills which actually translate really, really well into the workplace. so if these types of qualifications are crucial for employers, then i think it's fair to say they are more valuable than people give them credit for. steph mcgovern, bbc news, gateshead. the england and gloucester rugby player danny cipriani has been arrested and charged following an incident at a nightclub injersey. police say the 30—year—old fly—half was arrested in the early hours of this morning in st helier. he's been charged with five offences, including assault and resisting arrest. he's due to appear atjersey magistrates court tomorrow morning. hundreds of people have attended a service in the centre of omagh to mark the 20th anniversary of the bombing by the real ira group twhich left 29 peopl

with btec, it's individual assignments.north—east cancer charity and i've worked for the elderly people, doing like a tea dance. employers really, really rate vocational qualifications, the reason being that these are equipping graduates with a number of practical skills which actually translate really, really well into the workplace. so if these types of qualifications are crucial for employers, then i think it's fair to say they are more valuable than people give them credit for. steph mcgovern, bbc news, gateshead. the england and gloucester rugby player danny cipriani has been arrested and charged following an incident at a nightclub injersey. police say the 30—year—old fly—half was arrested in the early hours of this morning in st helier. he's been charged with five offences, including assault and resisting arrest. he's due to appear atjersey magistrates' court tomorrow morning. hundreds of people have attended a service in the centre of omagh to mark the 20th anniversary of the bombing by the real ira group which left

tomorrow's a—level results thousands of stu d e nts a—level results thousands of students received their btec and we look at why more people choose vocational courses. and on the papers, i am joined by david davis and owen bennet. all of that is to come but now it is sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm azi farni. coming up. celtic count the cost of failing to reach the champions league group stage for the first time in three seasons here in the studio with me joe lynskey and my guest owen coyle we'll look at what that result could mean for scottish football. england rugby union international danny cipriani will appear at a magistrates‘ court after being arrested at a nightclub injersey. and britain's most successful long jumper talks to us about his upcoming retirement. i'm greg rutherford and join me later on sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday. thanks forjoining us. we'll start with football and the fallout from celtic‘s champions league defeat last night. the 2—1 loss in athens to aek means they miss out on a financial windfall and the result could also have ramificatio

so you guys all did btecs. why did you decide that?rience on the health side. and that was important for you? yes. i want to go in cyber security. so one day i'll be teaching primary school children how to programme robots. the next day we would be making at led displays. was it hard ? it was a little bit but for me i found with assessments easier than sitting exams. you are doing sport, how are you assessed? the course involves things like sports psychology and nutrition. we did work experience. i did tennis coaching. you have a job interview off the back of your course. what have you been doing? i was doing a btec level three in media, video games design. we had to learn about all sorts. computer mechanics, coding, art, pretty much everything. it is a varied course. what will you do next? i'm going to northumbria university to study to become a midwife, which has always been a passion of mine. i can see the excitement on your face as your chatting! what are you going to do next? i'm going to durham university and doing sport, exercis

who have worked really ha rd to to birmingham, who have worked really hard to get their a—level or btecable to do that, irrespective of where the a—level grade boundaries are occurring. we're not seeing a deterioration in quality of students we are teaching. there are more unconditional offer is being made than ever before. why is that? there are more unconditional offers. at birmingham we have been doing that for over five years, so we are very experienced in what we are looking for. it is partly linked to the fact that predicted grades are becoming less accurate every year. less than a quarter of pupils receive the grades they are predicted to get. one reason we look at unconditional offers as it allows us to look at things like personal statements, references and exams as well. a look at the rounded potential of an individual student in making an offer. it is still a very small percentage of offers, less than 4% at the university of birmingham. it is part of a range of things we do at admissions to make sure we match the right students with the right universities. thank you very much

i put in as much work as i physically could and i was doing a btec and it's a bit different, and on they hardest and i've got my first choice university. we also have mark kirkbride, the principle. this year is the a* grades have gone down, but what have yours been like? add our results have been up, so despite the changes we have about 16% of students getting an a grade. we were actually the top performing couegein we were actually the top performing college in the region last year and we have upped that a little bit. what we have to remember is for all of these young people, are the exams more difficult than the previous year? they probably are more difficult but what we try to do is put good support around them and as hannah said, the mantra here is that it is the work that pays off and these people have put the work in and they have got the results they need. percentages go up and down but the experience for students is still the experience for students is still the same, working hard, diligently, and that pays off. mike kilbride the last speaker in birkenhead. 0ur correspondent and

thousands of students across the uk are receiving their btec results approximately one in four studentshave the qualification, it's become the most popular career qualification with almost a quarter of a million stu d e nts almost a quarter of a million students receiving the results this summer. students receiving the results this summer. elliott analysis suggests and allsimilar summer. elliott analysis suggests and all similar overall pass rate year—on—year. it was 20 years ago today that a bomb ripped through the town of 0magh, killing 29 people, making it the biggest single atrocity of the troubles in northern ireland. the town will later host a vigil of "remembrance and hope" to mark the anniversary. it is said to be the last official remembrance are “— it is said to be the last official remembrance are —— ceremony. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. we will talk about monkey dust after ten, it is an illegal drug, a class b drug with the dangerous rise in use in certain parts of the country police have told us exclusively that it's only a matter of time before