News about Guy Martin

This week, UK TV writer Kathryn Flett (left) reviews The Night Caller on My5 (right) and Guy Martin's Lost WW2 Bomber on Channel 4. She also watches A Good Girl's Guide To Murder on BBC iPlayer and Spent on BBC2.

Thousands of students from A-levels swarmed to bars and clubs to celebrate and congratulate their achievements last night, as tens of thousands of people are desperately looking for a university place. As a result of the crackdown on grade inflation, up to 61,000 students across the United Kingdom are frantically looking for a degree course, the most in nearly a decade. Around 19,000 students failed to earn the qualifications they required to enroll in their chosen university, while the remainder may have chosen a different path or are uncertain of what degree they want to study. Compared to 2022, there were around 73,000 fewer A* and As this year, and the overall pass rate – the percentage of entries graded A* to E – dropped to 97.3 percent to its lowest level since 2008. It comes as a result of a two-year programme to return scores near to pre-pandemic standards.

This year's students were taking their first set of formal assessments ever due to Covid-19 disruptions at schools, leaving them with teacher-assessed GCSE grades. However, that hasn't stopped some students, who have still triumphed today amid personal struggles and allegations of an A-level marking clampdown. Suraj Cheema, 18, (left) won a place to study Medicine at UCL after receiving consecutive A*s in his first week of sixth form at Dame Allan's Schools in Newcastle despite contracting coronavirus and being extremely sick and bedridden.

Students declared themselves to have been "completely screwed over" following an A-level marking clampdown, as the percentage of exams with top ratings decreased. During the pandemic, this year's students who received their A-level results today did not sit GCSE exams two years ago and were given teacher-assessed grades. This year's exams, which were dubbed "the unluckiest" cohort of students, were the first formal tests they've ever taken because of Covid-19 disruption at schools. Following reports that the number of A-level entries with top grades fell last year but not below pre-pandemic averages, they spoke out today. In a year where ministers and the exams authority in England wanted to return to pre-pandemic grading, 250,000 students have now received their grades. However, 19,000 students were involved in a Clearing fiasco today after missing out on a university campus, with some colleges running out of seats within hours. By 12.30 p.m., the University of Birmingham said it was 'closed for Clearing,' though the University of Sheffield said it had already received 5,655 calls within the first hour of its call center opening at 8 a.m., with more than 80 people on the phones.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Going on holiday? If you're heading to the tropics, you'll need to get your shots, but not in the Guy Martin way. Our Guy, Colombia (Ch4) a cocaine-fueled shooting The daredevil explorer wore a designer shirt topped by a wafer-thin bulletproof armour was uncovered by a cocaine-fuelled assault. With a revolver, then asked a gunman to shoot him at point-blank range. He even pulled his own bullet out of a box, picking the slug that would kill him. A guy who has broken his back twice in motorcycle accidents seems to be enjoying death-defying stunts as a change in the normal filming process. After all, it was a newbie. 'I've never been shot,' he pointed out, then corrected himself: 'Well, buggers are all about pellet guns,' he replied.' He described the sensation as being punched in the stomach before purchasing a bulletproof leather bike jacket.

Guy Martin, a criminal who shot a documentary in the Colombian jungle where he was willingly waterboarded and tested a bullet proof jacket, said it was 'f***ing terrible'. In the troubled South American country, the motorcycle ace, who is known for his two-wheel adventures, launched a new series. During the film, Martin joins a Colombian special forces unit, ahead of a raid on a jungle cocaine plant. Pablo Escobar's hometown, Medellin, is also visited by the author.

Guy Martin, a 41-year-old motorcycle racer turned presenter, was involved in a string of scary experiences for Channel 4's newest documentary Our Guy In Colombia, which airs later this month. Guy will land in the country only after being tortured, tied, and dumped in the back of a car before being arrested and water-boarded for real until he pleads for them to cease. The distraught father-of-one paid a visit to MC Armor, which makes bullet-proof clothing and has promised to put it to the test. In the film, the Grimsby-born daredevil reveals that two people are kidnapped every week, while more than 12,000 are murdered every year in Colombia, with the bulk of events attributed to the country's cocaine trade.