PUPILS at The Hurst Community College and Winklebury Junior School will be celebrating Bad Hair Day on Friday on board a special bus.

"Bad Hair Day on a Bus with BCOT" is a special event designed to take Bad Hair Day around Basingstoke and raise money for St Michael's Hospice.

The bus has been donated by Stagecoach for the whole day, and 20 hair and beauty students from Basingstoke College of Technology will be on board to transform ordinary hairstyles into the extraordinary.

Stagecoach operations manager Robbie Hall said: "We carry hundreds of children on Stagecoach buses in Basingstoke and this is an ideal opportunity to get involved with a school project at the same time as supporting a local charity.

"I am particularly pleased to help with an event that is such fun. I'm sure we'll have a great day and I will actually be driving the bus."

The Bad Hair Day bus will be visiting schools and businesses in Basingstoke that have supported St Michael's Hospice in the past.

Event manager Melanie Blackman, from St Michael's Hospice, said: "Events like Bad Hair Day are a great way to give the community a greater awareness of the hospice along with a fabulous excuse to have fun.

"Many people do not know exactly what a hospice is or does. Some mistakenly see it as a building just for people to spend their last days, but in reality we offer specialist skills and knowledge."

To take part in Bad Hair Day, call the event hotline on 01256 333300 for a special sponsorship pack.