Hair-raising effort

BAD hair day . . . George Borthwick with (from left) Laura Knowles, Rachael Dickinson and Fleur Taylor

THIS pupil was once reprimanded for sticking pencils in his hair but now he’s using the same idea to raise funds for a teacher’s charity trip to Kilimanjaro.

George Borthwick (11), from St Joseph’s School, Shaw, managed to cram 325 pencils into his curly mop.

Deputy head teacher Steve Hill said: “I told George off for doing this a while ago and when he heard about my challenge he came back and suggested it as an idea to raise funds.

“He raised £55 which will go to the Christie appeal for which I am climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on July 24.”