IF Phil Latham falls asleep doing his job, no-one, not even his boss is going to worry.

For on Monday the 27-year-old freelance outdoor instructor from Newton Abbot, began a job as the new sleeping bag tester for Halfords.

Paying a minimum of £600 weekly the position attracted more than 1,000 applications from as far afield as Brazil, Russia, Canada and Finland, after the job advertisement, originally placed in a regional newspaper, was publicised in the national media.<

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