First earthquakes, now meteors – presenting the Midlands; Britain’s very own Hollywood.

Just a quickie today, since packing is too upon me (I’m more organized than Ollie, so I start a day earlier). World news leads with the alleged ramming of a French oil tanker off Yemen; terrorism currently can’t be ruled out. In the UK, Duncan Smith is attempting to survive against further attacks on his leadership – first David Mellor and now Ken Clarke. At least they can always squash him if things don’t work out at the conference. Finally, vindication. A piece in today’s Sunday Times (not linked to because of a 5 minute registration that is needed and I don’t have time for right now) confirms that Euan Blair is one of the students affected by the A-level remarking; specifically his French mark, where his overall grade was a C, not the B he needed. The article does make clear that he was not appealing against the grade, so it seems he’s going to stay at Bristol. But, continuing on from yesterday, what of the political knock on that would occur were his grades to go up? No doubt it will be embarrassing, but it seems as though Mr Blair has already smoothed out the path – one source (that I have forgotten) claims that his speech whilst on an out and about in Blackpool concerning the remark was the first time in 3 years that he has directly said “I’m sorry.”

Rating – 2.75; details still coming in on the oil tanker, no doubt there will be plenty of conspiracies to report on tomorrow.