TWO schoolboys superglued their hands together in an arm-wrestling contest.

Nathan Wilkins, 13, and Kyle Robson, 14, were in a music lesson in their Hartlepool school when another pupil brought a pink tube of glue.

It was squirted onto Kyle’s hand and Kyle then challenged Nathan to the arm wrestle.

Soon afterward their High Tunstall School teacher was intervened when he realized the pair could not be separated.

The boys’ parents were contacted at 10am, with Nathan’s mum, Chris Coxon, 46, arranging for transport to take boys to the One Life Hartlepool, in Park Road.

Once there, staff and nurses giggled as they tried to un-stick the teenagers.

Staff at the One Life Centre tried nail varnish initially, but when it did not work, a medical guide was consulted and they tried hot soapy water.

After steeping their hands in the water for about half-an-hour, Nathan, 13, and Kyle, 14, both of Hartlepool, managed to pull their hands apart.

The pair returned to school at lunchtime on Tuesday, January 22.

Chris Coxon, a carer and cleaner, said: “I couldn’t get over it. I was saying to them, ‘are you sure you’re not lying?’ but they weren’t they couldn’t take their hands apart.

“Some girl had stuck some pink glue on one of their hands and then as lads do, messing about, they had an arm wrestle and the next thing you know they were stuck together.

"I had to help them in the van and put the seat belt right across the pair of them because it was both of their right hands that were glued.”

The mother-of-five said Nathan has always been accident prone after splitting his chin open, breaking his heel and then his arm in separate incidents over the years.

Mark Tilling, headteache, said: “The school dealt promptly with the incident and has taken appropriate action.”