Travel Weekly Blog

This week is Sun Awareness Week - a part of the British Association of Dermatologists' campaign to raise awareness of skin cancer.

Good timing - this is the week in which the UK is getting warmer (it feels like summer - hoorah)and the press is full of tips on getting in shape for the beach.

Add to this the fact that half of Brits are unable to recognise changes to skin that could indicate cancer and that every four hours someone in the UK dies of skin cancer and you have some compelling reasons to think about the effects of tanning.

And here is a publicity stunt picture for a self-tanning product taken at St Pancras station to mark the start of Sun Awareness Week.

Martin Couzins, online editor