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Slop it on this Summer

Slop it on this Summer

Yesterday the Teenage Cancer Trust released a study that showed young people are in the sun for twelve times the recommended time without sun cream or other protection. My experience is that it’s not just the folly of youth. IMO we all take this risk too lightly in the UK;

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Bollocks, discussed in 272 words

Bollocks, discussed in 272 words

Infants & Sumo Wrestlers, as myth would have it, have something in common. They happily function with un-descended testicles; I on the other hand, do not function well as I discovered on Sunday. The closest most of us get to this phenomena is when we get into extremely cold water resulting

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Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

On this day in 1997, the words that were immortalised by Baz Luhrmann “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” are 14 years old. The original article appeared in the Chicago Tribune entitled, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”. The author, Mary Schmich set out to write a fictitious

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