People are being urged to check, and look after, their skin as cases of a potentially deadly disease have reached a record high.
Cancer Research UK said skin cancer diagnoses across all age groups have now hit 17,500 each year. A boom of cheap package holidays in the 1960s has also been linked to a rise in skin cancer in older adults.
Case rates among adults over 55 have risen by 195% since the 1990s. A Cancer Research spokesperson said: "The rise in rates in over-55s is likely to be linked to trends to have tanned skin and the cheap package holiday boom dating from the 1960s before people became more aware of skin cancer".
