SUCCESSES from Blackburn School of Music in Associated Board of the Royal School of Music examinations for the Christmas term were:

Passes with Distinction: P Greenwood (Grade 8 piano): M Wootton (Grade 6 piano); S Coane (Grade 1 piano); J Harvey (Grade 1, violin); S Talbot (Grade 2 cornet); N Wood (Grade 3, cornet); C Greenwood (Grade 6, oboe); J Fourie (Grade 3, piano).

Passes with Merit: A Hargreaves (Grade 2, piano); R Leeson (Grade 1, piano); G Griffiths (Grade 2, piano); R Quigley (Grade 7 piano); A Bristow (Grade 2 piano); S Menzies (Grade 2 violin); R Marett (Grade 3 cello); M Kumar (Grade 5 oboe); L Nicholson (Grade 1 clarinet); A Hutchinson (Grade 1 clarinet); C Ainsworth (Grade 3 clarinet); A Harvey (Grade 3 cornet); M O'Connor (Grade 2 saxophone); A Wood (Grade 5 singing).

Passes: A D'Amour (Prep piano); R Connearn (Grade 3 piano); C Hamilton (Grade3 piano); R Evans (Grade 6 piano); H Winstanley (Grade 2 piano); J Gorton (Grade 6 piano); E Nightingale (Grade 5 piano); J Margerison (Grade 5 piano); P Gill (Grade 7 piano); A Walsh (prep piano); T Hodson (Grade 4 piano); A Wood (Grade 4 piano); J Eastham (Grade 1 violin); A Ingham (Grade 2 piano); R Edmondson (Grade 4 flute); L Oliver (Grade 5 flute); H Shipley (Grade 7 clarinet); F Hilton (Grade 1 clarinet); K Dabrowski (Grade 5 clarinet); J Smethurst (Grade 6 clarinet); N Jackson (Grade 3 clarinet); L Jackson (Grade 6 saxophone); C Jackson (Grade 3 clarinet).