A LOCAL MP has congratulated a South Oxfordshire school after it won a musical award.

Wallingford School were awarded the prestigious Incorporated Society of Musicians Trust’s Silver Certificate in Music for 2018.

The school's GCSE music performance was in the top 200 in the country, Wantage MP Ed Vaizey (pictured) said.

He added:"This is a huge achievement and demonstrates a real commitment to music in the school as well as representing a high level of achievement in itself."

The Trust say the annual awards "recognise not only the high level of uptake and attainment in GCSE music... but the level of commitment that is shown to music as a subject."