REBEL pupil Damien Hawkins has lost his battle for beards. The 16-year-old Highworth Warneford student has shaved off the goatee that had so irked his teachers.
He started a petition against school rules which ban boys from growing facial hair. But governors refused to change the rules, saying it looked scruffy.
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