New A-level high for happy students

Students in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire are celebrating another year of record A-level results.

Sixth formers across the region were today picking up results, amid warnings of intense pressure on university places.

Wolverhampton University had already received more than 1,000 calls from students within an hour of its clearing hotline opening at 7am - four times the number during the same time last year.

Students at Ounsdale High, Wombourne, were celebrating the school's best results.

Almost half of pupils gained A*, A and B grades, while the school boasts an overall pass rate of 98 per cent.

Headteacher Christine Brown said: "This is a fantastic achievement for the school and I am so proud that the efforts of students and staff have been rewarded with such a fabulous set of results."