A twelve-year-old girl who has been dubbed the real-life Rapunzel after refusing to cut her hair for her whole life is to cut it all off - and plans the 5ft 2in mane of hair for £3,500 to be made into extensions.

Natasha Moraes de Andrade, who lives in an impoverished shanty town in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, has never had a haircut. At 5ft 3in, she is just one inch taller than the length of her wavy chestnut hair - and the maintenance it requires sees her use a full bottle of shampoo every week.
Natasha spends four hours per week washing her hair and up to an hour-and-a-half brushing it each day. She has to carry it around when she walks, and fold it onto her lap when she sits down.

Despite Rio's 40-degree heat Natasha's family cannot switch on a fan in the house because her hair gets caught in it.

More than 350 people enjoyed a free picnic in Potters Fields Park on Wednesday as Alex James hosted a world record attempt to promote The Big Lunch.

The world's longest picnic table covered more than 90 metres of the riverside park near Tower Bridge.

Former Blur star Alex James hosted the MasterCard-sponsored lunch and ate with the crowds while Mayor of London Boris Johnson also stepped out of City Hall to enjoy the party.

The 2.75-tonne picnic table was created using 1,230 metres of timber and 3540 screws. It was constructed by a two-man team in a workshop near Southampton before final assembly in Potters Fields Park.

The giant table has now been divided into smaller picnic tables which will be given to community groups and gardens across London.

The Big Lunch on Sunday 5 June aims is to get as many people as possible across the whole of the UK to have lunch with their neighbours in a simple act of community, friendship and fun.

Here in SE1 Big Lunch picnics will be held in Tabard Gardens and at All Hallows Garden in Copperfield Street. Residents of Pearman Street in Waterloo are also planning a similar event.

"With MasterCard's ongoing support, The Big Lunch has got bigger and better each year," says Tim Smit, head of the Eden Project.

"This new world record will hopefully remind last minute lunchers that The Big Lunch is coming up soon and inspire all to get involved."


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