by Staff Writer, March 1, 2003
On Sunday 2 March, more than 100 pupils from Oundle School presented a classical concert at one of London’s leading concert halls.
A total of 106 pupils from Oundle School’s symphony and chamber orchestras, brass and wind ensembles and the chapel choir performed at St. John’s, Smith Square, in the heart of Westminster.
Upper sixth pupils Peter Morton (tenor), James Russell (baritone) gave solo performances, conducted by Oundle’s Head of Music Andrew Forbes and other music department staff – Angus Gibbon, Richard Kauffman, David Milsted and Alastair Tighe.
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Pupils from Oundle School were victorious in a legal competition in which they fulfilled roles as lawyers, witnesses and court officials in a mock criminal trial.
They beat King’s College, Wimbledon, in the final of the Southcot Mock Trial at West London Magistrates’ Court. The competition, organised by Oundle teachers Carolyn Gent and Will Buckley, is designed to give pupils – especially those who want to pursue legal careers – experience of court procedures.
The Judge, Mr Recorder McLeod, specifically commended several pupils for the strength and quality of their performances. The Oundle team prosecuted a criminal damage case and defended an alleged get-away driver from a bank robbery. Both defendants were acquitted.
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Local people are going greener in East Northamptonshire thanks to a new weekly ‘green box’ recycling scheme introduced by East Northamptonshire Council. The council and their waste management contractors Cory Environmental are delighted with the positive response that residents have given to the new scheme, with the amount of material collected for recycling surpassing all expectations.
In the trial area in the north of the district, where a mixture of plastic bottles, cans, paper, cardboard and textiles is being collected, a total of 41.5 tonnes of these was collected for recycling in the first week – a sharp increase on the amount of paper and cans collected each week before. In the rest of the district (where the boxes are restricted to paper and cans) the paper tonnage also increased sharply to about 35 tonnes and the amount of cans showed a particularly big increase in the first week of the box collections.
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Refresh UK plc, owners of traditional English beers such as Manns Brown Ale and Hobgoblin from Wychwood brewery, have formed a partnership with fellow Oxfordshire brewers, W.H. Brakspear and Sons plc from Henley on Thames, to develop and grow the Brakspear brand.
Following Brakspear’s strategic review and the decision by its Board to discontinue brewing in central Henley, Refresh will take over the brewing, sales and marketing of Brakspear’s much loved beers.
Rupert Thompson, Refresh’s Chief Executive and a former pupil of Oundle School, commented: “I have always admired Brakspear’s beer and our aim will be to maintain the tradition of crafting characterful, award-winning Oxfordshire beers.”
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