A SCHOOLGIRL was left in tears on her birthday after being told she would be removed from class because her hair braid was ‘extreme’.

The Lancashire Telegraph reports that Ellie-Mae Holmes, 15, from Ewood, Blackburn, was warned she would also be barred from school trips because of the single plait.

The teenager along with her sisters, Lucy, 11, and Katie, six, got their hair braided in Greece after a family holiday three weeks ago.

But yesterday Ellie-Mae was told she had fallen foul of Our Lady and St John Catholic College’s policy.

Her mother, Becky Gemmell, 33, said the school had not had an issue with her daughter’s hair until yesterday when her daughter called home.

The sisters are now set to reluctantly remove the blue and white braids.

She said: “I was heartbroken, Ellie was crying when she called me to say the school were threatening to punish her.

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