OVER 200 Budehaven Community College 16-year-olds converged on the school library to collect their GCSE results. At the same time, nearly 210 students from the year below collected their first sets of results, and there were many very happy faces.

Staff and students at Budehaven are delighted that despite a national picture of 'significant turbulence' in results, overall standards have been maintained with 58 per cent of students gaining five A* to C grades including English and maths.

Over 2,000 exams were taken by the Year 11 students, and just over 16 per cent of them have been awarded as grades A and A*.

For the full report, and a round up of the area news and sport, see this week's edition of the 'Post'.