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National 5 exams in Scotland have already been cancelled for 2021 but Highers are currently scheduled to go ahead.

Disruption is expected to last all day due to the "low speed" freight train derailment in Sheffield.

The pub chain's boss says Covid restrictions are "a muddle" as first quarter sales fall 27.6%.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.

Staff cannot be expected to "come up with, prepare, assess, standardise and moderate", a union says.

Watch 70 young musicians play an ambitious remote rendition of the Romeo and Juliet overture.

Thousands of students at English universities can return home during a "student travel window".

Senior royals and politicians will gather at Westminster Abbey to remember those who died in conflict.

The way towns in England were selected for a cash boost was "not impartial", a spending watchdog says.

Green groups welcome the UK's plan to outlaw the import of food and other goods from protected areas.

England's children's commissioner says some young people are living in "disgusting" conditions.

With less than 48 hours to go until the current laws expire, ministers have yet to announce a plan.

A senior counter-terror officer warns young people are being targeted for radicalisation.

Health inequalities have led to Covid-19 taking a "devastating grip" on the north, a report says.

Inhabitants left many of the islands when life there became too difficult for them.

MPs are looking at proposals that could free thousands of people from high-interest mortgages

Higher Education Minister Richard Lochhead is expected to give details on the scheme at Holyrood.

The BBC’s health editor Hugh Pym spent a day at Royal Derby Hospital

People aged 18 to 24 have taken a Covid-related financial hit but are least likely to open up about it.

A sports instructor says she struggles to speak and climb stairs since becoming unwell in March.