Oundle School has dismissed plans announced this week by the Cabinet Office, which would force them to open facilities for public use or face losing their charitable status.
David Harris, Bursar at Oundle School said: “The proposals have attracted a great deal of public attention. This is in direct contrast to the way in which schools such as Oundle are already quietly meeting the principle of public benefit – and have been doing for generations.”
For many, he was the next Will Young. For others, perhaps, he was another pop star in the making. Yet unfortunately, for the judges of the new BBC show, ‘Fame Academy’, he didn’t quite have that ‘pizzazz’ to be a world famous superstar.
For his old teachers at Oundle School, Ashley’s brush with Fame came as no surprise at all. “Although he spent a lot of time chasing the girls, Ashley’s talent as a musician was never in doubt, a talented trumpeter, guitarist and drummer,” said Oundle music teacher Richard Kauffman. “It comes as no surprise that he has been chosen above so many others.”
Did you watch London become a part of France yesterday? Yes, that same spirit of equalite, egalite et fraternite resonated throughout the capital yesterday as almost half a million people turned out to protect their livelihood and liberty. “Are we the most underrepresented minority?” one of the thousands asked yesterday. On the face of it, they probably have a point. Sara Allison, Alexander Dragonetti and Thomas Hood join forces to reveal the roots of a problem that has threatened to split Britain into rural and urban sectors. Continued…
Local injection moulding company, Polytech Precision Plastics, formerly of Nene Valley Business Park, Oundle has moved to Orton Southgate industrial estate in Peterborough. The move will create up to 20 new jobs.
The injection moulding company was set up in 1998, by Jonathan Ben-David (42) and now employs 50 people, achieving an annual turnover of around £1 million.
Currently serving such industries as medical, laboratory and automotive, according to Mr Ben-David, the company relies heavily on repeat custom and try to give a standard of service which is ‘second to none’. After four years of steady growth and success, the company has relocated to Peterborough, moving into a much larger 15, 000 sq ft site.