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Charlotte Penketh-King & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Personal trainer left half blind after bacterial infection from dirty make-up bag

A personal trainer was almost blinded after picking up a bacterial infection in her eye thought to have come from her dirty make-up bag.

Laura Hawkins, 24, had been travelling across Australia when she woke up one morning in "excruciating pain" and unable to open her right eye.

Her contact lenses, which had been kept inside her make up bag, had unknowingly picked up bacteria and passed on an infection.

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