Two Muslim boys barred from classes because they would not shave off their beards will be allowed to return to school unshaven.
Both 14-year-olds had been placed in "isolation" from the start of the new term at Mount Carmel Roman Catholic high school in Accrington, Lancashire, and this week were sent home as the school maintained they had to be clean shaven.
But the school has now performed a U-turn to comply with the European Convention of Human Rights, it explained. [Press Association] Read more
