People in the North have a lower risk of developing some cancers than residents in the Republic, a major cross-border survey revealed today.

Health Minister Mary Harney today backed a blanket ban on sunbeds in a bid to tackle growing levels of skin cancer.

Cases of malignant melanoma – the key cause of skin cancer deaths – have more than tripled in the North since the mid 1980s, it was revealed today.

More than a 100 men who suffered from prostate cancer have donated tumours as part of ground-breaking research into the disease, it emerged today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s health has probably been jeopardised by childhood exposure to radioactive fallout from a British atomic bomb test in the Australian Outback, a doctor said today.