MP's Bill against bad haircuts
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Your support makes all the difference.The motive was impeccable, the timing perhaps a little close to the scalp. Just as the Prime Minister's wife was living down her stylist's pounds 2,000 trip to Denver yesterday, a Labour backbencher called for redress yesterday for the victims of bad haircuts.
Introducing what he described as "a short, back and sides of a Bill," Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimsby, urged a proper registration system for British hairdressers. Of 110,000 hairdressers working in this country only 13,000 were registered, he said, while other European countries demanded recognised qualifications from anyone setting up a salon.
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