FIVE students from Alcester Grammar School have scooped places at Oxford and Cambridge University.

Imogen Airlie, Elizabeth Hatton, Callum Farrow, Finlay Battersby have been offered places to study chemistry, medicine and natural sciences.

Eliza Griffiths, who completed her A-level studies last summer, has been given an unconditional place to study English.

Principal Clive Sentance said: "We always encourage students, whatever their level of ability, to make the very best of it and to take every opportunity they can. Each year there are thousands of gifted young people from around the world who try for Oxbridge, which makes an offer something to be celebrated."