HOW encouraging it was to see so many young people from our local schools achieving so highly in their GCSEs and A-Levels.

The centre page of the Review recently contained two groups of students from Lakers. We are lucky enough to employ six of them! Not only are they high achievers, they are exceptionally delightful, hard-working, polite young people – a credit to their families, their school and themselves.

Hope for the future born and bred in the Forest.

– Sue and Geoff Sparks, Coleford.