Anyone who awoke to the sound of the student choking back the tears as she thanked her mum and dad during an interview on Five Live Breakfast will be aware that it's A-levels results day. EducationGuardian.co.uk has a great package of news, comment and analysis on A-levels, including Ted Wragg's view on the age-old "are exams getting easier" debate. We can also help if you've missed your grades and are trying to find a place at university through Clearing. We will also be asking for your heavenly or hellish A-level results stories here on Newsblog: in the meantime there is more on how we're covering the A-levels story today here.
Elsewhere on the site we'll continue to report on the clearance of Jewish settlements in Gaza and parts of the West Bank, and we're updating our story into the controversy over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes after his lawyers met officials from the police watchdog investigating the case.
Around our blogs, Matthew Tempest will be finding out why the Pope's in Germany, Leo Benedictus is filing his last post from Edinburgh on what he's learned from the Festival, and the Culture Vulture team is asking for you to recreate your favourite artworks in Lego form, in homage to Darren Neave and John Cake, aka the Little Artists.
