A STRAIGHT A student's celebrations got cut short when she was rushed to hospital last night.

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School pupil Elena Cocker, 18, was out with her parents and younger brother celebrating her six A level A grades at a restaurant when she choked on some food.

Her parents took her home to Tarn Avenue in Clayton-le-Moors but she continued to feel ill, and could not keep any food or drink down, so she was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital where she was kept in overnight.

Her father Michael Cocker said: "Elena is allergic to mustard and we think there might have been some mustard in a dressing and we didn't realise, which was what caused such a reaction.

"It was a real shame as she was so happy with her grades, and we're so proud of her, but she's getting better."

Elena chalked up a total of six A grades in critical thinking, English literature, general studies, history, psychology and religious education A levels, plus an A in a biology AS, making her one of BRGS's highest achievers this year. She will go to Cambridge to study law in September.