Sian was told to sit in the anchor's seat and did so, wearing a borrowed (man's) jacket, no make-up and blue nail-varnish!

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An officer noticed a worker at Dewhurst Butchers in Stratford, east London, wearing nail varnish and a jewelled ring - both of which can be health hazards.

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To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).

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With a string of victories to his name, the 18-year-old Thai transvestite had shown his taunters that you can have a fondness for lipstick and nail varnish and still survive in the brutal wor ld of kickboxing.

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