| GIRL GOT EARRINGS STUCK UP HER NOSE
By a correspondent
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| 1 | | A 14-year-old girl from Cambridge, | | | |  |
| | Rebecca Avis, had to undergo an opera- | | | |
| | tion because the two earrings she was | | | |
| | wearing as nose studs got stuck in her | | | |
| | nostrils. The earrings, which looked like | | | |
| | studs, were fixed by magnetic backs. | | | |
| 2 | | Rebecca got into difficulties when | | | |
| | she put one earring on each nostril to | | | |
| | make it look as if she had a pierced | | | |
| | nose. When she took them away, the | | | |
| | backs inside her nostrils shot together | | | | operations may have been cancelled be- |
| | because of the magnetic force and | | | | cause of her”. |
| | disappeared up her nose. | | 4 | | Joanne, who runs a beauty salon |
| 3 | | First she went to the doctor but he | | | | that pierces ears, but not noses said: |
| | couldn't do anything and then she was | | | | “It’s all Rebecca’s fault because there is |
| | sent to a hospital in Cambridge. There | | | | a clear warning on the label”. The £ 3.50 |
| | they also failed to remove the studs, so a | | | | earrings, with a flower design, were |
| | short operation was carried out. After the | | | | bought from a shop in Cambridge. They |
| | operation Rebecca's mother Joanne Avis | | | | are imported from the United States and |
| | criticized her daughter for wasting hospital | | | | carry a warning saying ‘for use in ears |
| | time. Joanne said: “I’m just angry as other | | | | only’. |
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