MEET Holy Cross College's "magnificent seven" who have been offered provisional places at Oxford and Cambridge.

Nuala Tumelty is lined up for Downing College, Cambride, to study natural sciences, while Charlotte McIntyre has been offered a place at St Hilda's in Oxford to read physiological sciences. Claire Peart is bound for Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to study biological sciences, while Jonathan Birtwell has been offered a place at Balliol at Cambridge to read natural sciences. Steven Baldwin is heading for St Hugh's in Oxford to read law while Danielle Silvester has been offered a place at Jesus College in Cambridge to take archaeology and anthropology. Lastly, Emma Hamilton is bound for Corpus Christie in Oxford to study molecular and cellular biochemistry.