BBC Journalist Laura May McMullan has used the heatwave as an opportunity to share her experience of skin cancer.

I was on holiday in Fuerteventura in January 2014, sunning myself and unfortunately getting burnt, when I received a text to say the dermatologist needed to speak to me urgently regarding my biopsy results.

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