Health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risks of skin cancer in gloomier parts of the UK, research suggests

Participants are not representative of the population — the UK BioBank only includes people between the ages of 37 and 73 at recruitment

On average, deaths occurred later in people who lived in sunnier parts of the UK, or used a sunbed at least once a year

Professor Kevin McConway, an emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, said