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Phyllis Diller once said, "When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate." This sort of honest appraisal of oneself is something the winner of the 2010 Miss Cornwall beauty pageant has yet to learn.

The rules of the annual Miss Cornwall beauty pageant are simple: entrants must be aged 17 to 24 and must live or work in Cornwall, the picturesque county in England's south-west.

Laura Anness, this year's winner, is 27, and she lives and works in Devon.

Laura managed to win the title - at her fifth attempt - by claiming she was a Cornwall resident and that she was aged 22. Her deceit was discovered when one of the pageant administrators noticed, while cleaning old files out of her office, that Laura's age was given as 22 on the entry forms for each of the five years she had entered the contest.

Now Laura has been stripped of the title she tried so long to win. She has also lost the chance to compete for the title of Miss England and forfeits a 12-month modelling contract.

When Laura looks back on her beauty pageant career, she can take satisfaction at least from making the final of the 2009 Miss Universe competition. It is believed there were no questions over geographical qualification for that one.

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British school bans short skirts

June 23rd 2010 13:13

VYOOS EDITORIAL

A British school has banned teenage girls from wearing skirts.

St Aidan's Church of England High School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, has decreed that all girls aged 15 and younger must from now on wear trousers.

The reason given by the school is that it wishes to save the girls from attracting unwanted attention. “Very young children, and even more disturbingly, special needs children are clearly wholly unaware of the signals they are giving out,'' it said in a statement

We wish to inform St Aidan’s School that the attention is not unwanted. It is entirely wanted. We would also like to notify St Aidans that becoming aware of the signals sent out by our actions is a crucial part of growing up.

Short skirts were shocking in the early 1960s. They have been part of the fashionscape ever since. That one group of teachers in a small town in Yorkshire should decide to impose a minority, blinkered view and say short skirts are unacceptable is to fly in the face of 50 years of conventional western acceptance.

More important, however, is finding the balance between tolerance and guidance in dealing with teenagers.

The school is saying it doesn’t like the decisions its teenagers are making. It is missing the point that all decisions have repercussions, and we all learn from those repercussions. It’s a fundamental of life in a community. That process is more important for teenagers than any other age group. They stand on the threshold of adulthood, and it is crucial that they be given the freedom, within the relative safety of their home and school environments, to interact with the world and, thereby, learn what works and what doesn’t.

Schools are for learning. If teenagers can not learn there how to think for themselves, they will have to learn later in a less-forgiving environment.
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What makes a soldier sexy?

April 8th 2010 11:09

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The official magazine of the British army is called Soldier. Imaginative.

The official hairstylist of Princess Diana, Liz Hurley and David Bowie, amongst glamorous others, is Nicky Clarke.

The twain, you'd think, should ne'er meet.

But they have just met, because Soldier invited Clarke to offer advice to the British military on how to look cool, hair-wise, within the regulations and restrictions pertaining to male members of said military forces.

The rules regarding British military hair demeanour are contained within a code known as the Queen's Regulations. The short version of the code is: short. No hair on the collar. No sideburns resembling anything remotely '60s.

The editorial people at Soldier — or was it the marketing people — said they enlisted the help of Clarke after being "bombarded" with letters about hair length and appearances.

Nice pun. Nice excuse for a feature story.

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Bride misses her own wedding

April 3rd 2010 02:47

A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

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Are women vain? The eyes have it

April 2nd 2010 01:32

For women confident enough to see it, glasses can be an elegant statement of self-assurance.

Scientists have produced evidence that just under 50 per cent of women are vain.

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Doctor, doctor on the wall

March 30th 2010 10:13

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In 10 years, according to a British forecast, some important functions of your family doctor will be taken over by your bathroom mirror

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The battle to save a language

March 12th 2010 04:25

Languages, like plant and animal species, can become extinct, a fact about which a lot of people care.

Well, so we thought

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Bluehenge

October 4th 2009 03:18

Stonehenge

They've found Stonehenge's little brother. It's only half the size — or was, none of the stones remain now — but it's just down the road from big bro, giving tourists two mysteries to visit instead of one.

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Acceptance Speech

September 9th 2009 00:05

Speech Debelle, a singer of the hip hop genre, has just won the Mercury Music Prize for best British album of the year. She won with her debut album.

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The archbishop's take on social media

August 6th 2009 23:28

Internet social networking sites which promote themselves as communities are in fact undermining community life. So are texting and emails.

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Fun and games in a committee room

July 14th 2009 20:04

One of the more potent forces for the reshaping of social awareness is the committee room. Fill it with people on a government salary and the results can be truly astonishing.

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No kissing allowed

February 18th 2009 04:11

We've all smiled at happy reunions as people get off planes, trains or buses and collapse into the arms of waiting loved ones. And we've all empathised with tearful farewells in the same places.

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