The Week Ahead with Yorkshire Post features writer Laura Reid
Assistant Features Editor Laura Reid looks at what's happening in the week ahead.
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00:00 Hi, I'm Laura Reid, the Assistant Features Editor at the Yorkshire Post. Here's a look
00:05 at what's coming up in the week ahead. So thousands of teenagers up and down the country
00:10 are set to receive their GCSE results on Thursday. It's the year that the government says the
00:15 grading is largely returning to normal after the pandemic. It's said that results are expected
00:21 to be similar to those in pre-pandemic years. The aim to return to that pre-pandemic grading
00:27 comes after the COVID pandemic led to an increase in top GCSE and A-level grades in 2020 and
00:35 2021, when the results were based on teacher assessments instead of exams. Leeds Festival
00:44 is back at Bramham Park over the bank holiday weekend from August 25th to 27th. Billie Eilish,
00:51 Sam Fender, The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Fools and the 1975 are among this year's headliners.
00:58 The bank holiday weekend is also going to see lots of events taking place up and down
01:02 the region. It seems like Malton Food Lovers Festival, Wednesdaydale Show, Yorkshire Balloon
01:07 Fiesta is running at Castle Howard and at Sewerby Hall a new exhibition called Brick
01:14 Live Animal Paradise is getting underway on Saturday. That's running until September 24th
01:19 and it's basically a model trail around the gardens showing some of the world's most endangered
01:25 species which have all been hand built using 556,000 bricks and that's to try and remind
01:34 visitors about the importance of preserving endangered species and highlight some facts
01:40 about the animals and their habitats. Elsewhere, three dresses owned by the late Diana Princess
01:46 of Wales are to go under the hammer at a Los Angeles auction this week. Julian's Auctions
01:54 and Turner Classic Movies jointly announced the sale of more than a thousand objects.
02:00 That announcement was made early this year and it's called the Hollywood Legends Collection.
02:06 The actual auction itself is happening on August 26th and 27th and its headline pieces
02:12 are three of Diana's designer dresses which haven't been seen in public for more than
02:17 30 years. Two of those dresses are by Catherine Walker who was her personal designer for more
02:23 than 16 years. She created the black cocktail dress that Diana was buried in and her designs
02:29 are still worn by members of the Royal Family today.
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