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Students achieve grades to secure A level and apprenticeship places On the day year 11s collect their GCSE results the Head of School at Warriner School in Bloxham has said they are immensely proud of all the work and achievements of their students. The school has recognised some outstanding achievements with students reaching the required […]
Celebratory breakfast as a significant number of students gain top grades A barbecue breakfast and ice-cream van awaited students at Wykham Park Academy this morning as they collected their GCSE results. Staff said the food treats organised for last year’s Year 11 cohort proved to be popular so they decided they should do it every […]
100% pass rate for those taking standalone maths and English This year has seen a great set of GCSE results for students at Activate Learning’s Banbury and Bicester College. 100% of those taking standalone maths and English achieved a pass. Many of the college’s GCSE students are learners who resit maths, English or both, to […]
Principal: “They should all be very proud of their efforts” Today is GCSE results day and local youngsters have this morning been discovering how well they did. This year, as with A Levels, GCSEs were awarded following Teacher Assessed Grades after external examinations were cancelled. At the North Oxfordshire Academy students have been celebrating their […]
Northants Police thank the public for their help in locating 15-year-old A missing local teenager has been found. 15 year old Alexia Ponting was reported missing after last being seen in Brackley at around 4 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. Northants Police reported this morning that Alexia had been found and thanked the public for their […]
Health Chief: “we are not out of the woods and life cannot yet be considered to have fully returned to the way it was before the pandemic” There’s a call for us to be cautious as we go about our daily lives after 1,517 cases of COVID were reported in Oxfordshire last week. In the […]
Section 59 notice issued meaning vehicle can be seized if similar offences occur A driver has been issued with a Section 59 warning after being caught off-roading at Burton Dassett Hills. An officer from Wellsbourne Police spotted the car on Wednesday evening The driver’s vehicle became stuck as it descended the hill and had to […]
Jayne Strangwood was wrongly named as the winner at the declaration in May Following a High Court legal challenge the declared result of May’s County Council election for the Banbury Ruscote seat has been overturned. The result, announced at Spiceball Leisure Centre on May 9, saw serving Labour County Councillor Mark Cherry lose his seat […]
People in Oxfordshire will join others in remembrance this Sunday Sunday marks the 76th anniversary of VJ Day. People in Oxfordshire will join others around the world in remembering those who served during the second World War. VJ Day specifically marks the sacrifices of those who continued to serve in the months after the fighting […]
Freely available report gives detailed breakdowns of consumer profiles and habits New research commissioned by Cherwell District Council shows that whilst online shopping is set to stay, people are spending more when they do visit a store. That’s just one of the positive facts in our post-lockdown world that local businesses are being invited to […]