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Watch a report by ITV News Anglia s Claire McGlasson
When 10-year-old Carly Gorton decided to donate her hair to help children with cancer, she thought that cutting it off would be the difficult bit.In fact, the biggest challenge was finding a charity to accept it. Carly from Southburgh in Norfolk was told that wig-makers couldn t work with Afro hair because it s too delicate.
So she started a campaign to get that changed. And it was huge relief to have finally made the cut when Carly Gorton had a trim in front of her classmates at Norwich School for Girls and helped achieve a first.