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Super dieter launches In brief
Passer-by saves
house from blaze
secret surgery holidays
A CAR went up in flames and threatened to
set a house alight in the early hours of the
morning until a quick-thinking passer-by took
action and called firefighters.
After spotting the burning Peugeot
hatchback in the driveway of a home in St
Margaret’s Street, Rochester, at 4.50am on
Mum offers discreet plastic-surgery package breaks
Wednesday, they woke the owners.
Firefighters from Medway and Strood were
called and doused the blaze, but not before
the heat smashed several windows and
after she struggled to find a clinic for tummy tuck
scorched guttering.
Garage fire
FIREFIGHTERS battled a blaze at a garage in
Report by Max Evans Chatham in the early hours of yesterday
ings, its beautiful river and
max.evans@KRNmedia.co.uk gothic architecture. morning. A crew from Medway spent an hour
A personal assistant helps dealing with the fire in Gerard Avenue,
A MOTHER-OF-TWO who them each step of the way, even Chatham.
shaped-up using a gastric guiding them around the city . The garage, which was piled with rubbish,
bypass and a tummy tuck, has With non-vital surgery cut was destroyed. The cause is unknown.
opened a company selling cut from the list of services offered
price plastic-surgery holidays.
Angela Chouaib, 34, of Green
by the NHS, Brits could be look- New-look store
ing abroad for cosmetic pro- THE CO-OPERATIVE will open a new-look
Lane, Grain, lost more than half cedures in the future.
of her 19 stone weight after a store in Hoo today (Thursday) after a
Around 60,000 people trav- £260,000 refit.
gastric bypass in 2009. elled to Poland for cosmetic sur-
But she struggled to find an Pupils from Hoo Primary School will cut the
gery last year. ribbon at the Main Road store, which has
affordable surgeon to tighten For more information about
the half-stone of loose skin left been redecorated and fitted with a new till as
Secret Surgery visit well as a kiosk to ease the congestion in the
hanging from her body . Before: Angela Chouaib www.secretsurgery .co.uk
Then in November 2009 she needed her skin tightened after store.
took a trip to Poland. losing weight
Mrs Chouaib discovered a
five star clinic in Wroclaw, ily life and their professional
south west Poland, which life.”
offered a range of cosmetic In 2007 there was a rise in the
treatments up to 75 per cent number of patients treated on
cheaper than those offered in the NHS for complications
UK. arising from botched surgery
abroad, as recorded in research
Secret by the British Association of
Now her company, Secret Plastic, Reconstructive and
Surgery, sells packaged breaks Aesthetic surgeons.
for people who want a boob job But Mrs Chouaib, who lives
or liposuction built into their with her two children and her
holiday . husband Pedro, 39, said people
Mrs Chouaib said: “Often should not be frightened off by
people don’t want other people horror stories of “back street
to know they have had a little butchers” abroad.
nip or tuck. The resident surgeon at her
“You can actually book your clinic is in the process of regis-
city break, and when you get tering with the British general
home you can show your medical council.
friends the site-seeing photos. Uplifted: Angela’s husband, Pedro, can sweep her off her feet Secret Surgery trips are
“It can be a secret.” after she lost 10-stone with a gastric band GIPM20110124A-023_C
arranged so that holiday
Her tummy tuck and skin makers have their operation
tightening cost around £3,000, fraction of the UK cost. She said: “I think you have to and recovery-time in the first
instead of around £12,000 – the Mrs Chouaib, who quit her walk in someone else’s shoes to four days.
average cost of the procedures job in occupation health and appreciate what it is they are They are then free to spend
when they are carried out the safety to start the company, said going through and how it is the rest of their trip enjoying
UK. people should not raise their affecting their lives. the delights of Wroclaw, which
She also decided to have a eyebrows at a face lift, or sniff at “It affects peoples’ confid- is described as the Venice of
breast uplift at the clinic at a nose job. ence, their mentality, their fam- Poland, with its historic build-
Brave schoolboy to
identify savage dog
THE SCHOOLBOY who was savaged scarred for life, has suffered a set-
by an unleased Staffordshire bull back after an infection set into the
terrier type dog will have to come wound.
face to face with the suspect animal He managed to return to school
in a bid to identify it. after the Christmas break, but then
Liam Monks,13, was playing foot- got a bout of chicken pox.
ball with his mates at the Garrison Debbie, 47, a nursery school work-
Ground in Gillingham when the dog er, said “He is still getting flash-
ripped into his leg gouging a hole backs, but the counselling is
half the size of a tennis ball. helping.
The attack has left the soccer-mad “He is achieving different goals
Robert Napier pupil in need of coun- everyday We are very proud of him.
.
selling and he is still undergoing “We are being told he has to identi-
plastic surgery treatment at a spe- fy the dog. But it will be in a con-
cialist hospital at East Grinstead. trolled environment.”
Skin from Liam’s thigh was graf-
Arrested ted to fill the gaping wound in an
A 15-year-old boy was arrested in emergency two-hour operation.
Gillingham just over a week after the Amazingly, two days later the
incident on Wednesday December plucky lad was allowed back to the
29, on suspicion of failing to control a family home in Belmont Road,
dog in a public place. Gillingham.
He has been placed on bail and Liam’s friends, Jordan Mills and
was due to return to Medway Police Kayleigh Williams, both aged 14,
Station today . who were with him at the time,
Liam’s mum Debbie Monk said described the dog as white with
her son, who has been told he will be black spots all over it.
Savage attack: Liam Monks,13, with mum Debbie