UK Boots offers high street botox injections

Botox injections are to become available on Britain's high street for the first time.

The so-called "temporary facelift", which costs £200 (€316), is available at four UK Boots stores.

The 10-minute procedure involves customers being injected in the forehead with botulin toxin type A, which reduces wrinkles.

Botox, or botulinus toxin, is one of the world's deadliest poisons. It works by paralysing the facial muscles that make wrinkles, and needs to be topped up every few months.

Boots is facing criticism over its the treatments, with Dr Geoff Scobie, a senior psychologist at the University of Glasgow, telling The Daily Telegraph: "We should be trying to educate people to make the most of who they already are. This is the recipe for true contentment."