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Cosmetic surgeons turn scalpels on 'state-sponsored marketing' scheme
Monday 13 September 2010
An acrimonious dispute has broken out between cosmetic surgeons and the clinics that provide injectable treatments such as Botox over the launch of a scheme designed to identify safe providers and root out rogue practitioners.
Woman reported after dog mauls girl
Friday 03 September 2010
A woman has been reported to prosecutors after a 10-year-old girl was bitten on the face by a dog, it emerged last night.
Scottish girl mauled in dog attack
Thursday 02 September 2010
A 10-year-old girl was being treated in hospital today after she was bitten by a dog in the second attack of its kind this week.
Schoolgirl savaged by rottweillers
Monday 30 August 2010
A woman has spoken of the horror moment she saw her 10-year-old granddaughter being mauled by two rottweilers.
War in Afghanistan: Warning or blackmail?
Sunday 08 August 2010
A photograph of an 18-year-old Afghan woman, mutilated by her husband on the orders of a Taliban commander, has shocked America and sparked fierce debate over the conflict
Crooked nose drove Kampusch kidnapper claims his best friend
Friday 06 August 2010
The Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch was imprisoned as a child in a cellar for eight years because her abductor wanted an "untouched virgin" to make up for his crooked nose and failures with women, his former best friend has claimed.
Ready To Wear: The 'Fatal' dress acts like plastic surgery – but without the mess
Monday 02 August 2010
Interactive fashion – that genre rare for its democracy in a world of diktats – comes in many shapes and forms. For those old enough to remember Bodymap, it might once have entailed buying a skirt that could be worn long or short, a sartorial miracle achieved merely by folding over a super-stretchy waistband more or fewer times. Rocket scientists need not apply.
Last Night's TV - The Ugly Face of Beauty, Channel 4; Between Life and Death, BBC1; The Fairy Jobmother, Channel 4
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Naked truths cruelly exposed
A farewell to my friend Sebastian, a true Soho eccentric
Sunday 20 June 2010
Horsley, the artist whose best-known work was having himself crucified, was the definition of a star
Tell-All, By Chuck Palahniuk
Sunday 06 June 2010
A movie star's beau has to repeatedly rewrite her grisly death scene as his murderous plans are foiled
The new plastic surgery
Sunday 30 May 2010
Forget a little nip and tuck: all that's needed for a fresh look this season is a littlePerspex. From understated bangles at Prada to fabulous festival-wear at DSquared, it's never been so fashionable to fake it, says Rhiannon Harries
Beauty at the end of a needle: A day in the life of a cosmetic surgeon
Sunday 16 May 2010
Plastic surgery is becoming a billion-pound industry in the UK. More of us than ever are ready to pay, and suffer, for a more perfect body or less lined face. Susie Mesure watched a practitioner at work
Three charged with branding man with swastika
Monday 10 May 2010
US prosecutors said they will pursue hate crime charges against three men accused of branding a swastika on a mentally challenged man's arm using a heated metal clothes hanger.
The Bradford fire: 25 years ago but the pain is still vivid
Sunday 09 May 2010
It claimed 56 lives and was one of English football's darkest hours. But out of the darkness came shafts of light
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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