Alex Cheatle, an Oundle School pupil, has become one of the three winners of the prestigious nationwide ‘Make it, Break It’ 2009 song writing competition run by the Sir Paul McCartney who founded Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA).
She said: “I’m still in shock really, MIBI is such an amazing thing to win and it will hopefully open a lot of doors.” Continued…
The Rutland Sinfonia returns to St. Peter’s Church, Oundle at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, 28th November to perform an orchestral concert with a very popular programme which is sure to appeal to concert goers.
The programme includes ‘The Hebrides Overture’ by Mendelssohn, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 (soloist David le Page) and Dvorak’s 7th Symphony in D minor. The conductor is Paul Hilliam and the concert is supported by Oundle Town Council.
Tickets (£10, £8 concessions, £2 children under 16) can be obtained in advance from the Tourist Information Centre, West St., Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 4EF (Tel: 01832 274333) or on the door (£11, £9 concessions, £2 children under 16).
100 members of Oundle School’s Community Action programme experienced a little bit of what it is like to be homeless by sleeping rough in Birmingham for a night. The pupils were only given cardboard boxes and a plastic survival bag in which they were told to make themselves as comfortable as possible on the surface of the concrete car park at St. Basil’s Centre for the Homeless.
The pupils arrived in high spirits on a mercifully sunny evening. A huge scramble for the cardboard followed and everyone soon got to work on creating their home for the night using odd bits of string and sticky tape. There was a feeling of excitement in the air as this was a new experience to many of the pupils. Continued…
A ten car pile up caused the A14 to be closed eastbound between J10 and J11 on Tuesday 29 September. This caused great delays and frustration to those who were left unaware of what had happened. The crash took place at approximately 2.45pm near Finedon and Islip. Continued…