Kristopher Lipscombe News Today

In October 1995 The Mail reported how Our Ladys Chetwynde School at Barrow, which had soared to success since it took over from a small convent school in 1984, had a new badge. The move linked Our Ladys, then an independent school, firmly with local history and nearby Furness Abbey. The school had just 100 pupils when taken over by a charitable trust and board of governors. It now had 500 children. A red marble statue of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus once stood in the school ...

Forty-five teams from 28 schools took part in the chemistry contest, held at Lancaster University. The winning team comprised Kristopher Lipscombe, David Hyde and Jamie Ingham, all in their first year of A-level studies at the school. Competitors had to imagine they were working in the quality control department of a firm importing wine. Teams had to find out the levels of alcohol and sulphur dioxide in the wine using various chemical tests. The Barrow team was to go on to represent the...