After two years of teacher assessments due to the pandemic, this year's GCSE results day brought a predicted drop in the proportion of pupils getting top grades. 

For businesses, there's no cap on energy prices. And with their utility bills heading through the roof, schools, hospitals and care homes are facing difficult choices as they try to budget for the months ahead.

The cost of living crisis will come into even sharper focus tomorrow when the new energy price cap is announced, sending household bills soaring. 

"If anyone knows anything, now is the time to speak up" - that's the message from the family of Olivia Pratt-Korbell, the 9-year-old who was shot in her own home on Monday.

Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and former Tory leadership candidate is in Kyiv.

More than 80,000 refugees fleeing the fighting have been taken in by British hosts .   

Ayshah spoke to Ben MacPherson, who is Scotland’s Minister for Social Security and Local Government. She asked him if he understood why, given their low wages and concerns about rising costs, the refuse workers are striking.

Rubbish is starting to pile high across Scotland as strike action over pay has spread to 13 more local authorities. 

Police officer John Williams helped investigate some of the most notorious murders in Liverpool in recent years. 

Police are continuing to appeal for information about the killer of Olivia Pratt-Korbell. 

Scientists at the University of Oxford have started a clinical trial of an antiviral drug they're hoping could reduce the length of symptoms for monkeypox.

Nicola Sturgeon has met with energy companies to discuss how to tackle the soaring costs of heating our homes.

We spoke to Alistair Phillips-Davies, the chief executive of energy company SSE  - which has just built Scotland's largest offshore wind farm.

There are fears around energy supply and security this winter and an urgent need to be ready for what might come.

We were joined by the Chief Constable of Merseyside, Serena Kennedy.