A teenager from Ripon who was paralysed following a fall from a bedroom pull-up bar says he has moved on from the accident that crushed his spinal cord and hopes some day to fly. Just four months on from the accident, Ripon Grammar School student Alan Nowicki took his GCSEs and excelled, achieving 10 passes ranging from grade 9 to 4 — the equivalent of six A*–A grades, alongside a handful of Bs and Cs. This summer, he will sit A-levels in maths, physics and chemistry and hopes to build on these already impressive results. If all goes to plan, Alan will go on to study aerospace engineering at university with the goal of designing an aircraft one day.