IF you're going to have a bad hair day, it's best to try to make it count for something.

That's exactly what youngsters at Sowerby Primary School, near Thirsk, managed to do when they turned up with hairstyles that would normally have got them sent home. The pupils each paid 50p for the privilege of turning up with the most outrageous hairdo possible - and they succeeded with the help of braids, spikes, dyes and wigs. The event was raising cash for research into asthma.