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    The best day ever that was three-year-old Romaysa's reaction after getting off her speedboat ride in West Sussex. Her sister Tasnim, brother Elias and mother Nabila have not been allowed back in to their home near Grenfell Tower since the fire. The area is still too dangerous. So it was a welcome break when charity Play Association and Felpham Sailing Club offered them, and other Grenfell families, a day out sailing and playing on the beach. Nabila told Sky News it's made a real difference. It's amazing. From the moment I saw the sea. Breathing the air…it's something different. We're really grateful, we're so honoured to have this moment of a day and to see them smiling and say it was the best day! Mum Nabila takes a picture of her children on the beach She explained how f...

    In just over three weeks time we will see the first cohort of GCSE students decipher a mix of letters and numbers in their results. Here’s our guide to the new numerical grading system and what it means for pupils. What will change? This summer marks the beginning of the end for the familiar A* to G grades. Over the next three years, they will be replaced entirely with a scale numbered nine to one - with nine the highest result, and one the lowest. But for this year, just a handful of subjects will be switched over, meaning some students will forever boast a CV with an 8 in maths and an A* in geography. What’s the time scale? Students in this year 11 sitting English language, English literature and maths will be the first to notice the changes. For most other subjects, inc...

    Nick Timothy Theresa May’s former right hand man has revealed for the first time what went wrong in the general election campaign and what he believes the Conservatives must do to avoid defeat in five years time. Nick Timothy, who resigned as the Prime Minister’s joint chief of staff in June, told The Daily Telegraph that the Tories lost their majority at the election because they abandoned Mrs May’s promise of change in favour of a continuity message. He also admitted Downing Street was guilty of a breakdown in communications both with the public and with other Whitehall departments, leaving key policies vulnerable to attack. In his first interview since leaving Number 10, the man dubbed Theresa May’s brain said she must find new ways to reform social care and forge ahead...

    A man has died after being shot in the chest as he stood outside a petrol station in Chelmsford, Essex. The victim, who was in his 20s, was standing with another man outside a BP garage on Baddow Road near the Army and Navy roundabout. He was shot dead by a man who pulled up in a blue Ford Fiesta at about 2.10am on Saturday. The suspect then drove off. The victim was taken to hospital but died a short time later. The road was closed for forensic examination. Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to call 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or at www.crimestoppers-uk.org.

    Britons living all around the world are applying for Irish passports to safeguard their positions after Brexit, the country’s UK ambassador has revealed. Daniel Mulhall said many of a record 500,000 applications in the first half of 2017 had come from British people who fear losing their rights to live and work in the EU after withdrawal. That increase comes on the back of a 40 per cent rise in the number of Britons seeking Irish passports in the second half of 2016, immediately after the EU referendum. It’s risen very significantly, Mr Mulhall told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. We have to attribute that to the impact of last year’s referendum. On the 500,000 applications from around the world, the outgoing ambassador said: That’s an extraordinary number of passports well...