Article: THE SCANDAL OF POSH'S HAIR; Sold by starving Russian 11-year-old girls for [pounds sterling]1.40 ... bought as trendy extensions by British celebrities for [pounds sterling]5,000.

Byline: DAVID JONES;STEPHANIE YOUNG

WE FOUND them, freezing and half starved, outside a drab hair salon in the Siberian capital of Novosibirsk: four homeless waifs whose wretched lives are a world apart from the pampered British celebrities they were unwittingly here to beautify.

Aged between 11 and 13, the Russian girls had run away together to escape their violent, vodka-sodden parents, and were now hiding out in a disused flat. Having spent all their savings, they feared they would be packed off to the grim city orphanage.

Then, the previous day, they had spotted a sign at the bus stop in Karl Marx Square, offering 'wonderful prices' for ...

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