Get your hair cut

PUPILS at Austin Friars Catholic Secondary School. Carlisle, will start the autumn term next week with "ears showing and no sideboards or moustaches."
Parents have been told about this in a letter which has just been sent to them by the headmaster. Fr. Bernard O'Connor. It advises parents of the 300 boys at the school, on how the pupils should look.
The letter says that boys must wear school uniform, have a normal hairline at the back, keep their ears showing and have no sideboards or moustaches.
Fr. O'Connor said : "I want the boys to look tidy for school. When there is untidiness there is usually a fall in discipline. I don't want to lay down exactly what length their hair should be but I gave parents a few pointers in the letter."
During the past year, added 'Fr. O'Connor. there had been a tendency for sideboards to start creeping down faces and there were a few moustaches among the older pupils.
"I felt it better to tell parents now rather than the boys when they return to school," he said.