ROMANCE is dead at Prince Henry's Grammar School - and that's official.

Budding entrepreneurs had formed their own Young Enterprise Company, based at the school, and hoped to sell dozens of red roses to lovestruck pupils to give to their valentines.

But they hadn't taken into account that their colleagues aren't a very romantic lot at Prince Henry's.

And after desperately advertising their enterprise for a fortnight, they were heartbroken when they received no response at all from unromantic pupils.

"I can't understand it," said Chris Burland, managing director of Arura. "It just seems that there is no romance at Prince Henry's. Perhaps people were too embarrassed, I don't know.

"We were hoping to sell about 50 roses and thought they'd go down a bomb, but we haven't even been able to sell one and now we're going to have to come up with something else to sell." Sixth-former Chris said that Arura was also selling chocolate bars at break-time and that they were going very well. Pupils obviously rate feeding their bellies more than their souls," he added.

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