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Gown-clad Oxford University students who celebrate the end of exams by covering each other in shaving foam, silly string and champagne will be fined £150 after a ban on the tradition.

The university is clamping down on the summer ritual of ‘trashing’, seen as a rite of passage as students leave exam halls.

While Oxford has previously vowed to crack down on the tradition – said to cost it £45,000 a year to clean up – this is the first time fines have been issued.

Three penalties have already been handed out and officials are roaming campus to find offenders, according to university newspaper Cherwell. Those who fail to pay fines face

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