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The Direct.Gov website is advertising a post for female mud wrestlers to wear bikinis and grapple with other women in a rubber ring in Nottingham. The job pays between £10 and £15 per hour and 'bouts' will be filmed for broadcast on a pay-per-view site.

The ad says all applicants should be "bubbly, confident and outgoing," and "not object to being covered head-to-toe in mud."

Employers insist that the job is not 'adult work', but involves 'light-hearted mud-wrestling' for a pay-per-view site.

Applicants have until next Tuesday to apply for the position, which will be based in Nottingham.

A source said that women would be 'expected to wear bikinis and take part in 'various bouts' with other women in the 10ft-wide rubber arena.