"Mash up a ripe avocado and plaster it over your face for 15 minutes - you'll smell like a chicken salad but your skin will feel revitalised, " reckoned Coombe.

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If there's a Major League Baseball park, an NBA or NHL arena, or an NFL stadium, corporations line up to bid for the opportunity to plaster their names on it.

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Looking up, he watched lines of icicles forming where water sluiced through cracks in the plaster.

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Loose-head Jones picked up the injury in a December league win over Munster, and after coming out of plaster it was decided that he needed more surgery.

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