WALTHAM Forest's GCSE good pass rate increased for the 10th successive year, provisional figures show.

The amount of pupils achieving five A* to C grades, including English and Maths, increased by 2.5 per cent.

Holy Family Technology College, in Shernhall Street, achieved the borough's most improved results.

The school's good pass rate leapt from 49 per cent to 68 per cent.

And following Tom Hood school's huge increase in its good pass rate, from 29 per cent to 40 per cent, no school in the borough is now on the Government's National Challenge list of schools which need to improve or face closure.