'Skin cancer epidemic' warning

Scotland is in the grip of a skin cancer epidemic, an MSP has told Holyrood as he called for new regulations on sunbed salons to be brought in.

Labour's Ken Macintosh has been campaigning for under 18s to be banned from using the machines and for unstaffed sunbed salons to be outlawed. In a bid to achieve that, he will put forward amendments to the new Public Health Bill.

He told MSPs on the Scottish Parliament's Health and Sport Committee that it was estimated 100 deaths a year in the UK were as a result of people using sunbeds.

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