MEN and women living in Worcester are some of the least attractive in Britain, a survey has found.

The Faithful City's females are the eighth most unattractive in the UK, while Worcester's male population failed to fare much better finishing joint ninth least attractive with Oxford in the Attraction Survey 2006. Newcastle and Sheffield were voted the places to find the most attractive men and women respectively.

But two Worcester beauties have disagreed with the results.

The winner of Miss Worcestershire 2006, Selina-Nicole Lavictoire, aged 21, of St John's, said: "I think that's a bit shocking actually. I find it a bit offensive. I suppose in every city you're going to have some people among the rest of them who aren't as attractive but I don't think everyone's attractive to everyone because it's a matter of personal opinion.

"I'm quite disappointed with those results really."

Jennifer Smith, aged 21, reached the final of a national modelling competition for gay and bisexual women last month.

She said: "In some respects I would agree with it but there are some really, really good-looking girls in Worcester.

"Worcester's quite a small place so in bigger places like London you are going to get more variety of people. The same goes for the men."

Lucy Dunn is specials editor at Grazia which conducted the survey.

She said: "Women in Worcester think their men are more attractive and Worcester men think Worcester women aren't attractive. The men voted women down in the survey so it's all their fault."

She added that the people of Worcester should "keep their chins up" because only 25 regions from across the UK were published in the report and that the difference between all of the towns and cities was close.

The aim of the poll, which consulted 4,000 men and women across the country, was to build an accurate picture of what we all ideally want our partners to look like, wear, earn, own, buy, think, play, drive and even eat.

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