A tech start-up based in Helsinki has developed the world’s first facial recognition payment system. Designed to effectively transform your face into your PIN, the terminals use cameras to confirm your identity, meaning all the shopper needs to do is look into the lens and press OK.

BBC is criticised for ‘trivialising’ plastic surgery by backing contestant’s project

The industry has been calling for stiffer regulation for some time

The fashion for sleeveless dresses combined with admiration for strong-armed celebrities such as Michelle Obama has fuelled demands for a new type of plastic surgery.

Surgeons will be banned from telling patients they will look better after cosmetic surgery under new proposals.

Cosmetic surgery companies face being banned from offering free medical consultations to prospective patients and may be required to obtain a two-stage written consent in a clampdown on the industry in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal.

Curves and length signal both frailty and strength, finds Roger Dobson

Women signing up for cosmetic surgery could be compelled to wait for several weeks before having the procedure as part of a mandatory "cooling off period" being considered by the Government.

More than 2,800 women who had PIP breast implants at private clinics have been referred to the NHS in England, according to government figures.

Almost as many people think payday loans should be barred from advertising on television as those who agree with the existing ban on cigarette ads.

Plastic surgeons today demand a complete ban on advertising for cosmetic surgery, annual checks on practitioners and tighter controls on the use of implants and injectables to curb the "wild west" industry.

'They always did what they threatened – no messing about'

The Harley Medical Group, which fitted PIP breast implants to almost 14,000 British women, has said it will not replace them free of charge.

Women feel depressed because the 'ideal shape' is almost as remote from reality as Barbie's