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Russell Eaton inside his salon on Shambles Street, Barnsley. Russell had has a salon in the town since 1978, and still has clients from that time. Picture: Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme.

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Veteran Yorkshire hairdresser Russell Eaton has a career spanning seven decades. As his team celebrates another prestigious award, he tells Yorkshire Post Fashi...

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Kim Kardashian's outfit highlighted Barnsley this week. Photo: PA

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Belonging: Fashion & A Sense of Place at the Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Elinor Camille-Wood, Curator, with the Alexander McQueen dresses inspired by Wuthering Heights, alongside an archive Yorkshire dress dating from the Brontes' era. Picture Bruce Rollinson

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Fashion designer Rita Britton at Barsnley Town Hall.

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Meghan Markle, pictured here at the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey this week, shows how effective tonal make-up can be by sticking to tawny pink and soft brown. Try Laura Mercier Extreme Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette, Â£45, for eye options. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Beauty: How to colour at home like a salon pro

Under the dryers at a Nottingham salon in 1996. Picture by Honey Salvadori.

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Rita Britton at Nomad Atelier in Barnsley. Picture by John Britton.

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Kay Mellor is to front a documentary about 1966.

Kay Mellor turns TV presenter to tell story of British life in 1966

A revolution in store

Rita Britton of Pollyanna in Barnsley

Closing time for one of Britain’s fashion trailblazers

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