From September pupils will have to wear trousers at St Albans Catholic High School, Ipswich, Suffolk. Nearby Kesgrave High School introduced a ban in 2004 amid worries over rising hemlines.

A school with 1,700 pupils in Suffolk is to ban skirts and is applying a trousers-only policy from September. Northgate High School in Ipswich has ... "Kesgrave and St Albans High Schools already ...