Call for complete ban on sunbeds from Manchester charities and survivors

Hundreds of people in Greater Manchester are backing a total ban on the use of sunbeds.

It comes ahead of a debate in Parliament with MPs set to discuss making tanning booths illegal.

It follows years of campaigning from charities and skin cancer survivors.

One of those whose speaking out is our own newsreader Kate Hall.

She was diagnosed ten years after she last used a sunbed:

"When I was a teenager, I pretty much went on the sunbed six times a week. Years later, I'd stopped going on the sunbeds, I was in my early 30s and I had a baby. I had this weird itchy spot.

"So I went to see a doctor, she did say the sunbed exposure had probably caused it. I felt so stupid because I couldn't believe I'd done that to myself, I had a daughter and I'd done it to myself. I'd never to that now and I go past sunbed shops now and I feel so angry because I want to tell people not to do it.

"I was doing it pretty much every day and it was something I was doing so much I felt like, if I didn't do it, I was really pale. People who are doing it now, it's not safe and they think they're fine but years later they won't be.

"It really caught up with me and that wasn't something I had thought about, I hadn't been on sunbeds for years and when I found it I rued the day I ever thought a suntan was what it was all about."