Reaction from across England as pupils receive their A-level results on 18 August
Record numbers of university places awarded as slight fall in top A-level grades
Marc Gaier
Reporter, BBC Radio Merseyside
It's a nervous day for students across the country as A-level results are released.
I'm at Maghull Sixth Form where young people have been arriving to open the all important brown envelopes - and this trio are very happy with the results.
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Carla George
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
As university students across the county open those all important A-Level results.
Here's some information on what happens next, external.
And what to expect if you're going through clearing.
BBC Look North
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
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Alex Rhodes
BBC Lincolnshire Live
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Thousands of teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving their A-level results today.
While many will be out celebrating their success, others will be disappointed and facing tough decisions.
The BBC News website outlines some of the options for those students who did not get the A-level grades they needed for university. Read more here.
Are you waiting for your A-level results? How did you get on and what are your plans for the future? You can share your reaction and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk, external.
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As students squeal in delight as they find out they've got better grades than expected... or consider their options if the outcome is disappointing... we've been speaking to one musical student who'd already secured her future as long as she got two E grades.
Verity Poulson, 18, a student at Farlingaye High School, external in Woodbridge, is going to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, external in London, to do a jazz singing course.
She said her results didn't really matter "as the course is all audition based" and she'd already got her place.
But for the record, she got one A, two Bs and one D.
If you haven't got the grades you wanted on on A-Level results day, there are alternatives to going to university.
Mark Millar is a builder and presenter with the BBC show DIY SOS and says than you could consider an apprenticeship.
It would mean you'd start you working straight away and learn skills and make a bit of money rather than paying out for tuition fees and university costs.
Mark Millar from DIY SOS says being an apprentice can help after exams
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Andy Kershaw
BBC Radio Sheffield News
It's A-level results day.
Of course it's a big day for our universities, where the phones are ringing for clearing places.
BBC Radio Sheffield's Andy Kershaw has been at Sheffield Hallam University:
After getting their A-level results, students who've been accepted into Kent's universities have been tweeting about their excitement.
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Richard Smith
BBC Essex
Getting your A-Level results can be terrifying at the best of times - but this morning, Katie Nicholls took things to a new level of stress by allowing me into her kitchen for the moment she opened her results.
Fortunately, things worked out rather well for her - she got an A in history, an A* in sociology and an A in English literature, meaning she's off to Exeter University.
Her mum Becky said she's worked hard for it: "I used to test her with flash cards in the evening - we all got through it together. Obviously Katie did all the hard work, but I was there for support!"
Record numbers of UK university places have been awarded - as this year's A-level results show a marginal fall in top grades.
The proportion of A* and A grades was 25.8%, down by 0.1% on last year. The pass rate of 98.1% remained the same.
The Ucas admissions services says that 424,000 places have been offered, an increase of 3% on this day last year.
Amy Harris
BBC East Midlands Today reporter
Reliving A-level results day agony at Gateway College in Leicester.
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Congratulations to the A-level students getting their results at Winstanley College in Greater Manchester, but shouldn't you all be jumping in the air for this photo?
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Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live
Here's a happy bunch of students at Ashby School in Leicestershire.
From left to right we've got Matt Curtis, who's off to study medicine, Lauren Kaye, who's also doing medicine, Amy Munro, who's off to read human physiology, and Amy Tucknutt, who's heading west to Bristol to study law.
Start packing the baked beans now.
Georgey Spanswick
Presenter, BBC Radio York
It's a big day for thousands of young people across the country: A-level results day - the culmination of months and months of hard work.
Youngsters will be hoping their results get them one of a record number of university places available this autumn.
Jasmine Cannon, until recently a student at Harrogate Grammar School in North Yorkshire, aims to study medicine at Newcastle University.
Having taken A-levels in maths, chemistry and biology, she was up early this morning to find out what the future holds - and she told me live on BBC Radio York what her results are:
