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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 08:42 UK time, Monday, 18 September 2006

What have the London & the separate Madrid fashion week got to do with NE Wales? Well, the girls and women who frequently get in touch with our website to discuss weight and being body conscious may be interested to know that doctors were on hand at the opening of the Madrid fashion week to ensure all models had a body mass index of 18 or more - with 18 being considered a far cry from being a waif. But there was no such policy today for the launch of London fashion week, sparking a row.

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