A teacher at Oakbank School who agreed to shave his head for Children in Need misunderstood when pupils told him they would leave it completely bear.

English teacher Stephen Hall laid down the gauntlet to students last week, handing them an opportunity that was too good to miss.

He said: "My sixth form group decided that if they raised £200 I should get my head shaved.

"I said ye,s not thinking that they would do it, but they did. There's obviously quite a high demand to see me look stupid."

However, unbeknown to the unfortunate teacher, the pupils had a far crueller fate in store for him than a simple head shave.

They drafted in Vicky Hodgson and Mathew House from the Panache Hair Salon in Cross Hills, who shaved his head and left two little tufts on top. Then they painted a Pudsey Bear on the back using the tufts as ears.