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Lady Louise Windsor with her brother, Viscount Severn

Lady Louise off to St Andrews to study English after A-level success
The Queen’s granddaughter will head to the Scottish university, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met, in September.

A CCTV image of Owami Davies

Missing nurse could be taking trains appearing dazed or confused, say police

Sadiq Khan blames spate of violence on school holidays, long days and heatwave

Students sitting an exam

A-level trends: What this year’s results tell us

Finland prime minister Sanna Marin

Finland PM denies taking drugs at ‘wild’ party

Coronavirus vaccine study

NHS to roll out variant-busting Covid booster jab from September

School pupils in a lesson

Student stranded by pandemic celebrates top A-level grades

Jessica McGeown (left) opens her A-level results with her mother Samantha McGeown at Lagan College, Belfast

A-level grades down from pandemic highs but still above 2019 levels

Brighton College Ukrainian pupils

Ukrainian refugee ‘grateful’ for support as he prepares to study at UCL

Ukrainian student who became British Army translator aces exams

Ukrainian student who became British Army translator aces exams

Elena (left) and Rosa Launder both achieved A* A-level results at Millfield School (Millfield School/PA)

Twins go separate ways after identical success in A-levels

A-level results

In Pictures: Tears, hugs and smiles on A-level results day

Students with their A-level results at Ark Putney Academy, south-west London

A-level grades down on last year but remain higher than pre-pandemic

An online energy bill on a smartphone screen

Forty-five million Britons to be plunged into fuel poverty in winter – study

Students accepted on UK degree courses down on 2021 but second highest on record

A woman using a smartphone

EE blocking ‘one million scam calls a day’

Margaret Ferrier

MP Margaret Ferrier admits exposing public to Covid-19 risk on train trip

Spook’s fantasy series author Joseph Delaney dies aged 77

Jeremy Corbyn, second left, and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, second right, on the picket line outside London Euston train station

Jeremy Corbyn blames running injury for black eye as he appears at picket line

Taliban fighters and local residents gather around a mosque that has been bombed in Kabul, Afghanistan

Prominent cleric among 21 killed in Kabul mosque bombing

New Zealand police investigators work at a scene in Auckland after bodies were discovered in suitcases

New Zealand family find children’s bodies in abandoned suitcases

An AO World delivery van

AO World slides to loss over higher labour costs

Composite of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

Tory candidates warned over tax cut pledges amid worsening economic outlook

Coronavirus – Sun June 19, 2022

Study suggests having a Covid-19 jab while pregnant ‘not linked to stillbirth’

‘Months of anxiety’ – Ex-councillor reveals toll of prostate cancer tests

People with umbrellas walking in the rain on Millennium Bridge

Lingering showers and thunderstorms could hit parts of the UK

A platform is closed off at Kings Cross Station

Fresh transport strikes to cause more travel chaos

Men walk in the rain with umbrellas

Rain continues in New Zealand after storm forces hundreds to evacuate

Museum bee specimens

Bees increasingly stressed by climate change over the past 100 years – study

A collection of British newspapers

What the papers say – August 18

Sir Salman Rushdie receives the James Joyce Award from the UCD Literary and Historical Society in Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin

Sir Salman Rushdie’s attacker ‘surprised’ to learn of the author’s survival

Undated handout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of a man suspected of abducting a seven-year-old girl on Wednesday afternoon in Droylsden, Manchester

Suspect arrested after alleged abduction and sexual assault of young girl

Anne Heche wears a wide-brimmed hat

Coroner: Anne Heche died due to smoke inhalation and burns

A student doing an exam (David Davies/PA)

Thousands to receive AS and A-level results across Northern Ireland

A MiG-31 fighter jet from the Russian air force lands at the Chkalovsk air base in the Kaliningrad region

Russia deploys hypersonic missiles to Baltic enclave

British and Argentine Falklands veterans unite to scale Mont Blanc

Thomas O’Halloran

Arrest over fatal stabbing of 87-year-old on mobility scooter

St John's College, Cambridge

Oxbridge ‘less flexible’ amid A-level grade inflation crackdown

Sunak’s McDonald’s order raises eyebrows

Pupils sitting an exam

Dyslexic student wins place at top art university

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, left, at a news conference with German chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin

German chancellor condemns Holocaust denial in call with Israeli PM

A screengrab from Saudi state television of doctoral student Salma al-Shehab speaking to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in 2014

Leeds University doctoral student sentenced to 34 years in Saudi prison

Generic health pix

Slump in nursing course acceptances will worsen staffing crisis – union boss

Ryan Giggs denies headbutting ex after ‘completely losing self-control’

College student wins university place after switching from make-up to forensics

A sign reading 'swimming prohibited' on a beach in Marseille in southern France

Three killed and 12 injured in storm on French island of Corsica

Broadcaster Amol Rajan appointed new host of University Challenge

Students Ben Surtees, Bryony Lucas, James McSaprron and Leonie Rowe check their results on their phones at Peter Symonds College, Winchester, Hampshire

Students say excitement levels ‘through the roof’ after getting A-level results

Rail dispute could be prolonged ‘indefinitely’, warns RMT chief

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong

Hong Kong political activists plead guilty amid crackdown

English literature has fallen out of the top 10 most popular subjects at A-level for the first time (Ryan Phillips/PA)

English literature drops out of top 10 most popular A-levels for first time

Pupils with A-level results

Studying through pandemic ‘a nightmare’, says pupil collecting A-level results

Coins and notes

Cash use set to survive despite slump during pandemic – report

Brighton College head boy Shaun Pexton

Brighton College student turns down Cambridge University to study at Yale