my colleague victoria derbyshire spoke to vice—chancellor of keele university, trevor mcmillan, and mikersity of bath, about how universities were preparing to deal with the sudden government u—turn on results. there is a lot of work to be done helping young people sort out what the future is going to be over the next few days and weeks. there will be some serious issues for some universities whether it be in terms of the volume that they now have to take, that is extra, and for others there will be specific situations like medicine where there are very real limits to how many students we can take in on any one year, but because of the placements that we have available, but also because of government caps on the numbers. on the points about medicine, professor, i have an e—mailfrom someone who had an offer from keele university to do medicine, her grades were downgraded so she didn't meet the criteria. she explained that the school is going to appeal on her behalf, and they said, ok, if you are successful you can come next year and to medicine. now she has got the grades, can she come th

to lighten it from keel university and his colleague peter diners have another hunch that this might be similar for people could excessive food intake flow the bacterial colonies and got out of balance. over the past 50 years food availability has grown enormously in industrialised countries at the same time there's been a dramatic increase in gastrointestinal diseases such as crohn's disease. why is that. to better understand the relationship between bacteria and their host the researchers have started a feeding experiment with a freshwater polyps in their lap. one group of bacteria is that a more protein rich diet for humans this would be the equivalent of eating a lot of dairy products and other animal proteins. the other group receives a rich and complex mixture of carbohydrates fats and proteins similar to an unhealthy diet with lots of meat and sugar. how did the polyps bacterial colonies in the 2nd group change due to their excessive diet. it was amazing how quickly the entire system reacted within 24 hours we observed a drastic change in the composition of the bacterial colon

with me is professor trevor mcmillan, the vice chancellor of keele university. university of bath. good morning. professor trevor mcmillan, what does this u—turn mean for you? for us it means again and there is a lot of work to be done helping these young people sort out what their future is going to be over the next few days and weeks. there will be some serious issues for some universities, whether it be in terms of the volume that they now have to take, that is extra, and for others there will be specific situations like medicine, where there are very real limits to how many students we can take in any one year, both because of the placements we have available but also because of government caps on the numbers. 0n the point about medicine, sorry to interrupt, i have got an e—mail from someone who had an offer from keele university to do medicine, her grades were downgraded, so she didn't meet the criteria, ec explained the school was going to appeal on her behalf and they said, 0k, appeal on her behalf and they said, ok, if you are successful you can come nex

we're joined now by adam moolna, who is a lecturer in environment and sustainability at keele universityoon. the lagoon is maybe 60 to 70 square kilometres, just a few metres deep. coral all over the place. amazing fish and mangroves. what impact is this likely to have? the impact will be devastating essentially on two sites. they are sites of international importance, were excellent. mangroves will suffer. conservation efforts over the last few years planted lots of seedlings of mangroves. we expect most of those to die. the coral reefs and the lagoon will suffer a massive toxic shock that will take perhaps decades to recover from a. you yourself are a mission and i know yourself are a mission and i know you go there when you can —— you are from mauritius. what is the impact on you, seeing what's going on? from mauritius. what is the impact on you, seeing what's going 0mm is devastating to see. from 10,000 kilometres away, i have friends and family sharing videos and pictures of what is happening. people are angry, people are upset. fishes are losing their livelihood —— fishers are losi