How many times have you noticed a strange new freckle, a slight change in a mole or an oddly coloured patch of skin on your body and chosen to just ignore it? For me, and for many other people, the answer is more often that we’d care to admit.

I’m a natural redhead, so freaking out over every mole and freckle would quickly become a full-time job. But there are a few that, if I had all the time and money in the world, I’d get checked out privately. Or if the NHS had all the time and money in the world, I’d get checked out through my GP.

Unfortunately, neither of us have all the time and money in the world. We’re both pretty skint and knackered, actually . For this reason, many people avoid investigating potential skin cancers, putting them off due to lack of “severity”. But that poses a

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