Undated handout photo issued by Suffolk New College of Danny Davey with his wife Cheryll at Suffolk New College. The 73-year-old great-grandfather, who left school at 14, said he "felt emotional" to have achieved a GCSE in English. Danny, from Ipswich in Suffolk, sat his exam at Suffolk New College in the town and got a grade six. Earlier this year the pensioner won a writing competition organised by the further education institution.
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Former roofer Danny Davey, of Ipswich in Suffolk, sat his exam at Suffolk New College in the town and got a grade six.

Great-grandfather who left school at 14 gets GCSE English, aged 73

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Thousands of GCSE students across the region have opened their results after huge disruption and confusion over how their grades would be calculated.

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Harlow's MP Robert Halfon says BTEC students will be "extremely anxious and disappointed" not to be getting their results today, following a U-turn on grading.

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The college is making an “Offer Guarantee” to prospective students who’ve already applied.

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Twenty schools and two councils in the Anglia region have joined the legal challenge to the English GCSE results.

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Head teachers across the East are continuing their fight to have this year's GCSE English marks regraded

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Mark Dawe, the Chief Executive of the OCR exam board, apologises for errors in the marking of last year's GCSE and A-Level papers.

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A level students in Cambridge say they have lost trust in examiners, following one exam board's marking mistakes.

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