The full extent of Mrs Larcombe's preparations for her return to the UK may never be known. She has been taking full advantage of the fact that it costs about one third of the UK price. Our reporter has managed to detail and photograph some of them:

Tanning - this has been a seven- week process culminating in a dark bronze tan. No doubt Mrs Larcombe will be wearing lots of white clothes in the coming weeks!

Hair styling - the full extent of these cannot be revealed for reasons of national security, but the photograph shows the amount of attention that she is receiving from two Argentinean hairdressers.

Pedicure and manicure - some sort of scrubbing, cleaning, pasting and finally painted nails.

Top lip - done before she knew it or even asked for it.

Eyebrows waxed - we do understand that nothing else was waxed!