3:27pm UK, Monday October 24, 2005

If you have a moustache, your face could earn you a small fortune.

Devon and Cornwall Police are looking for men with facial furniture to help them with their enquiries, and they are willing to pay.

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Des Lynam has a marvellous moustache

The force urgently needs to update its photo database - the pictures police use to make e-fits of suspects.

Each e-fit is made up of different facial features that witnesses select to construct the face of the suspect.

But the identification unit at Plymouth's Charles Cross station is lacking a decent range of moustaches for witnesses to choose from.

They are appealing for grey-haired men with moustaches between the ages of 30 and 55 to volunteer to appear in their photo 'line-up'.

They also need men between 25 and 60-years-old with moustaches to come forward.

And if you decide to make your moustache available to the authorities, the ID unit will pay you the princely sum of £10.

It's almost worth growing one just for the cash. Sorry ladies!