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Surprising life-savers

My party nails saved my life

When Sarah Burrows, 54, sat down for a pre-Christmas manicure to get ready for the party season, she had no idea that her beautician Lucy Dempster was about to save her life.

As the women chatted, Lucy noticed a mole on Sarah’s chest that concerned her.

‘She gently said that she’d been doing some training on skin cancer, and maybe I should get.

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