The match had three beneficiaries - Burns' family, the Tommy Burns Skin Cancer Trust and the Celtic Charity Fund.

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In either case, the skin color is generally close to the family's coloring, but a little bit lighter.

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The fourth-generation family business sources and processes crocodilian skin for high-end handbags, watchstraps, shoes, garments, belts and wallets.

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The bacteria are in the same family as the bacteria that cause cholera, and the victims apparently became infected through open cuts on their skin.

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Professor Rona Mackie, an expert in skin cancer from the University of Glasgow, said it was important that people with a family history of melanoma did not panic.

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His successor, Olivier Courtin-Clarins, has stuck to that position, but with robust global demand for high-end skin-care products, its not been enough to ward off the speculation that the family would sell, assuming the right price could be obtained.

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