Northampton Chronicle & Echo Morning Update 16 August, 2024
The latest headlines from the Northampton Chronicle & Echo
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00:00This is your morning update for Friday the 16th of August 2024, brought to you by the
00:06Northampton Chronicle and ECHO.
00:11Three students from Northampton Academy achieve clean sweep of A** in A levels. Following
00:18results day to day, students will be studying a wide range of competitive and high quality
00:23courses, notably Law, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics.
00:30A level results day. Impressive increase in A** B grades at one Northampton school.
00:38Kingsthorpe College says this year's results have surpassed the outstanding achievements
00:43of last year, with an impressive increase in A** B grades.
00:5020% of all A level grades achieved at Northampton School were A or A**.
00:56Thomas Beckett Catholic School has seen significant improvements and successes across all subjects
01:02in the sixth form.
01:05Northampton School celebrates second year of A level results, including 10-year-old
01:11achieving A** in Maths.
01:14Wooten Park School opened its sixth form in September 2021, so the 2024 cohort is
01:21only the second to receive A level results at the school.
01:27More than a fifth of students from Northamptonshire School secure places at Russell Group Universities.
01:34Chenderit School in Middleton, Cheney has seen just under 70% of students gain a place
01:40at their first choice university and more than a fifth at Russell Group Universities.
01:47How the Moulton Magnets flyball team plan to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
01:53Based in Moulton, Northampton and founded more than 20 years ago, the team has been
01:58well known for their love of dogs and for their determination to become the UK's fastest
02:03flyball team.
02:07Cobbler's injury news from Brady as defender misses WKM defeat and new signing limps off.
02:13Willis was not in the squad for Towns League Cup defeat to Wickham in midweek, while Mbete,
02:18who only joined the club on Monday, limped off in the closing stages, meaning Cobblers
02:23had to finish the game with 10 men.
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