are you worried about this, shyama?kids are at that stage was that i always used to say that exams are much easier now, then i saw what they did and realised it was much harder because we had learned in a very structured way, whereas they learn from a smorgasbord system so it is all over the place, learning and a modular way so it is more difficult. and i imagine that for some kids, it's just... it's not the learning that is difficult, it's the method of learning, and that impacts their results. do we need a new system? yes, we have been saying that. but i'm ancient and i believe they were seeing it when i was young and they got rid of all levels and brought in gcses, or cses as it was at that stage. they've been changing the system for decades and still can't get it right. no wonder the predicted grades don't work. the sunday telegraph, officials could only cope with five covid chris's a week, this was in the early days when they abandoned the test and tray system. —— covid cases. it is interesting, the sunday papers,

shyama perera and david wooding, thank you very much for being with us here on bbc news.s — journalist and author, shyama perera, and david wooding, the political editor of the sun on sunday. goodbye for now. hello. before we start looking ahead with our forecast for the next few days, i'm just going to take take a quickjump back into april because april 2020 was quite exceptional. it turns out to be the sunniest april on record, many of us seeing 50% more sunshine than we typically would. it also, though, was very dry. the april showers were few and far between. the darker the brown on the map, the drier it was, some parts of northern england seeing less than 20% of their monthly rainfall. and dry weather will play a large part in our forecast for the week ahead. looking at the chart behind me, you might think, "ooh, "there is a weather front to the south, don't they "normally bring rainfall?" well, yes, but not that much today for southern areas. just a lot of cloud, i think, across southern counties of england and south wales. the more significant rain today is likely