A WHITBY teenager was one of the country’s top five performers at A-level in English literature.
And Joseph Hales’ fantastic achievement has landed him a place at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to read English.
His top-five place was confirmed in a letter from the AQA examination board.
Joseph is one of three young people from the borough studying at Wirral Grammar School for Boys whose A-levels marks have won them Oxbridge places.
Matthew Eccles of Neston is heading for Trinity Hall, Cambridge to read history.
And Joseph Wilding-Steele of Willaston is to read earth sciences at Hertford College, Oxford.
Full A-level results will appear in next Wednesday morning’s Pioneer.
