“I only had one bad sunburn there once.”

Dr. Aubriana McEvoy, a Mohs surgeon at Siteman Cancer Center and a dermatology professor at WashU Medicine, hears versions of that line all the time. “And that’s exactly where we end up treating a skin cancer,” she said.

When she examines those same patients, the rest of their skin tells a different story. “We commonly see more sun damage and skin cancers on the left hand and forearm from years of incidental exposure through the car window,” McEvoy said.

The sunburn the patient remembers is the one they blame. The years of “normal” exposure that actually built the skin cancer are the years no one thinks about.

That asymmetry, with the left side worse than the right, is one Dr. James Chao sees constantly. Dr Chao is a board-certified facial plastic surgeon in San Diego, and one-sided damage from driving is common enough to have its own name.

“Unilateral dermatoheliosis is something we see as facial plastic surgeons,” Chao said.

Standard side car windows block only 55 to 75% of UVA rays.

“Your left cheek, temple and ear can take in years of sun damage while driving to and from work every day. What happens down the road is patients come in with uneven sun damage or photoaging. The left side of the face may have more sun spots and nasolabial folds that are just deeper.”

In Australia or the United Kingdom, it’s the right side. The asymmetry is the giveaway.

Dr. Amy Bandy, a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, said the bigger misunderstanding is what counts as sun exposure in the first place.

“It’s easy to be exposed to a peak window of ultraviolet radiation from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. while watching your child play soccer on Saturday,” Bandy said.

“It doesn’t matter how cool it may feel or what the wind speed is. You’re still getting some of your highest levels of UV radiation. The same goes when you run errands between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., walk your dog down the street every day or stand outside waiting for your kids to get off the bus without any protective covering from the sun.”

She tells patients to do the math. Fifteen unprotected minutes a day adds up to roughly 90 hours a year. “Multiply that by 10 or 20 years, and you’ve accumulated thousands of hours of unprotected UV radiation exposure.”

Cloudy days don’t reset the count, either. “UVA light is prevalent year-round and penetrates through glass surfaces,” said Dr. Rosanne Paul, an assistant professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University. “Even in the spring and summer when there is cloud cover, UV light still penetrates and you should still wear sunscreen.”

Some of the most exposed skin is the skin nobody thinks to protect. The top of the head is one.

“Skin cancers are very common in the part lines of people,” said Dr. Purvisha Patel, a board-certified dermatologist and Mohs surgeon in Memphis, Tennessee. Parting your hair in the same place year after year leaves the same strip of scalp exposed to cumulative damage most people never notice, she said. Patel tells patients to rotate the part and wear a hat outdoors. Creams can’t get through hair, she said, making the scalp the one place where spray sunscreen earns its keep.

The skin around the eyes is another blind spot, and the source of the damage is one almost no patient suspects.

“We spend a lot of time with our heads tilted downward so our phones sit just below our line of sight,” said Dr. Gregg Feinerman, a board-certified ophthalmologist in Newport Beach, California. “This position perfectly angles our upper eyelids, eyebrows and temples directly at UV rays shining down from the sun. Most sunglasses don’t cover this area, which means you could have two to three unprotected square inches of the most delicate skin on your entire body exposed to UV rays every time you’re outside between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.”

Years later, Feinerman said, those patients arrive with thickened upper-eyelid skin and basal cell carcinomas in places they “can’t quite remember getting”.

Bandy can map the damage by decade. “After 10 years of exposure, I have begun to notice small amounts of uneven pigmentation starting to appear, along with freckles lasting longer, new sun spots forming, and my patients’ overall skin colour is slightly duller due to slower cell turnover,” she said.

By 20 years, Bandy said, established sun spots set in, along with permanent wrinkles that don’t smooth out when the face relaxes. After 30 years, the changes are no longer cosmetic. Collagen and elastin break down, and precancerous lesions appear.

Much of that damage is preventable. The trouble is, many patients have been doing the prevention wrong.

Patel said the most common mistake is incorrect sunscreen application. “Sunscreen is meant to be applied on clean, dry skin to be effective,” she said. “We cannot control for the efficacy and longevity of a product when it is put on top of or under makeup or moisturisers.”

Most adults under-apply, she added, recommending a nickel-sized amount for the face. Bandy adds that even correctly applied sunscreen needs reapplying after two hours outside.

For anyone weighing the cost of doing more, Chao has advice. Fixing a 1-centimeter defect on the nasal tip or eyelid can take up to three hours of surgery and leave permanent changes to the face. “We simply cannot recreate some of these structures,” he said. Prevention, by his reckoning, runs around $30 a month in sunscreen, plus $5 to $20 per window for UV-blocking film. “It could prevent you from ever needing Mohs surgery.”

McEvoy’s advice is shorter than the list of exposures. “Make sun protection part of your routine, not something you only think about at the beach,” she said. That means sunscreen on ordinary days, and covering the scalp part, ears, hands and eyelids. It also means knowing your own skin, because most skin cancers are first spotted by patients themselves. “Look for the ugly duckling, a spot that stands out, or anything that’s changing, bleeding, or not healing,” she said.

The line she repeats most often is the one she wishes patients heard first.

“There’s no such thing as a healthy tan. A tan is a visible sign of DNA damage in the skin.”

Dame Helen Mirren has spoken for the first time about a viral video depicting her being met with verbal abuse in the street due to her past support of Israel.

Last month, footage was widely shared online depicting the Oscar winner being branded an “an evil Zionist bitch” by an unseen man.

In the clip, he also told her husband, the Oscar-winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford: “You as well, fuck you and all.”

Earlier this week, the British performer accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taormina Film Festival, where she said of the video in question that she had been “attacked by mistake by a man who was maybe a little over passionate or maybe mentally not quite stable”.

The Metropolitan Police previously said of the viral clip: “We are aware of a video circulating online, showing a man and a woman being subjected to antisemitic verbal abuse in Tower Hill. It is believed that the incident took place at the end of last year.”

Clarifying her stance on Israel at the event, Dame Helen said (via Variety): “Evil forces are rising everywhere, even in a country like Israel. How could you possibly repeat the actions of what was done to you as people to other people?”

She continued: “I was born at the end of the Second World War, I grew up in Europe post Second World War and the realisation in my parents’ generation of what had happened in the Holocaust was so profound, so important.

“Therefore, the creation of Israel was a very important moment, although maybe it was done in completely the wrong way, in the wrong place, I don’t know. But something had to happen after the horror.””

Dame Helen said in 2023: “I believe in Israel, in the existence of Israel, and I believe Israel has to go forward into the future, for the rest of eternity. I believe in Israel because of the Holocaust.”

She has since spoken out in support of Israel numerous times, having twice signed open letters in support of its inclusion at the Eurovision Song Contest, despite controversy over its involvement amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

In 2023, she also played the fourth prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir, in a biopic.

At the Taormina Film Festival, Dame Helen observed: “When you play Catherine the Great, why was Catherine called the Great? Because she took land. Why was Alexander the Great? Because he took land. He invaded, he killed people, he destroyed cities and he took land. Why is he remembered in history? Because with incredible brutality and unbelievable cruelty, he took land.

“So it devastates me. That’s what I mean. The evil is always lurking, waiting to take over, even in a place like Israel.

“I played Golda Meir and worked in a country that was the idealistic Israel, and I always thought it was a country that would never do wrong, but of course they were doing wrong, even then.”

Dan Jarvis has been appointed the new defence secretary following John Healey’s resignation.

The former Parachute Regiment officer has been security minister since the general election in 2024.

Healey dramatically quit on Thursday morning in protest at the amount of money being provided by No.10 and the Treasury in the Defence Investment Plan (DIP).

In a blistering letter to the prime minister, he said he had been left with “no other option” after learning that defence spending will go up from 2.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) next year to just 2.68% in 2030.

It is understood that amounted to an extra £13.5 billion, less than half of the £28bn army chiefs said they needed.

Healey said the funding settlement would force him “to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our Forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country less safe”.

But in his reply, Starmer said he was “proud of our record on funding”.

The PM insisted the DIP “will provide the resources our military needs to keep us safe and the clarity the British defence industry needs to plan”.

“It will make the big strategic investments we need for the long term and give the certainty which private finance needs to invest,” he added.

“It will allow our armed forces to transform and modernise and back them with the tools they need to change the way we fight – and to deter our enemies.”

Jarvis served in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan during his time in the Army.

He was elected MP for Barnsley Central in 2011, and has represented Barnsley North since 2024 following changes to constituency boundaries.

He was promoted to the cabinet less than an hour after junior defence minister Al Carns also quit in protest at the Defence Investment Plan.

In a coruscating resignation letter to the PM, he said he could not defend “a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task”.

Carns said: “I have sat in the rooms, seen the assessments, and spoken to the commanders who will be asked to do more with less, and I cannot in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task.

“A serious country funds its defence to meet the threat it actually faces, not the threat it wishes it faced.”

Earlier, Labour MP Pamela Nash, who was John Healey’s parliamentary aide, also resigned.

She said: “The defence of our nation is the most important responsibility for any government. The delays and difficulties with securing the necessary funding to progress the defence investment plan has been the latest issue that is damaging to the trust of the public in us.

“We saw this laid bare in last month’s election results. Our Government’s successes are consistently drowned out by mistakes and the failure to be bold when it matters most.

“Our country is more divided now than it has ever been in my lifetime, and our political opponents are both the provokers and the beneficiaries.

“If we cannot provide a strong vision for the UK’s future, and enact a clear, progressive route to get there, then we are allowing the unthinkable: for those opponents to take power. We must do better.”

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned about most modern-day pizza ovens, it’s that they’re never quite big enough to cook multiple pizzas in one go – and that’s a travesty.

Often, it means the chef of the household – usually my partner – is left prepping one pizza at a time, then cooking it, then prepping another and cooking that, while everyone else tucks in to his efforts.

By the time he’s bringing the third or fourth pizza to the table, the rest of us are stick-a-fork-in-me stuffed, while he’s just about managed to shovel a single slice into his mouth.

Thankfully, he loves cooking for our family (especially pizza), so he doesn’t really mind. But when the opportunity came knocking to try Gozney’s Dome XL (Gen 2) – a bigger version of the Arc, which we’ve been using for the past few years – I was curious to see whether this would mean he’d finally be able to sit down and eat with us as a family.

Dear reader: he did! And as for the pizza… it was the best yet.

It’s large enough to cook two 12″ (14″ at a push) pizzas – so, certainly living up to its moniker.

The pizza oven is 946mm wide, 997mm high and 697mm deep. If space is at a premium in your back garden, you might want to give this one a miss, and I’d instead recommend the slightly smaller Arc or even the OG Roccbox (great for camping/very small gardens) – we’ve bought and used both on repeat over the years.

The Dome XL turned up on a pallet and required four of us to carry it through our house to the back garden, where we screwed it to the stand (sold separately), attached the chimney, adjusted the stones (there are two which sit next to each other), got it hooked up to the gas bottle and turned it on in about 10 minutes.

You need to cure the stone for about 30 minutes before first use. The oven’s digital display comes charged, so you can use it straight away.

My first impression of the oven, even before we’ve started cooking, is that it’s really well-made. This is a professional bit of kit – and it looks the part, too. Considering it’s pretty large, it’s certainly not overbearing.

But while it’s clearly made by the pros who know what they’re doing, it’s not pretentious or complex. The Dome XL – just like Gozney’s other pizza ovens we’ve used over the years – is extremely user-friendly.

Beginners would have no issues getting this set up and cooking pizza or any other dishes they’d fancy giving a try. (Gozney’s YouTube has long been a firm favourite of ours to find recipe inspo).

The oven heats up quickly – it takes about 30 minutes to get to 300-degree+ temperatures, and then you can start cooking pizzas or sizzling steaks. The digital screen on the front of the oven gives you insights into the temperature of the oven, the temperature of the stone and even allows you to set a timer for cooking.

It also comes with two meat probes you can use for precision cooking – we cooked steaks on it in a cast iron pan, as well as chips (yes, you can even cook fries in a pizza oven!).

Once you’ve prepped your pizza and shuffled it onto the stone, it could be cooked in as little as 90 seconds – or longer if you prefer a low-and-slow cook.

Nowadays, we tend to opt for the latter so we can prep more to fill the table with pizza, pizza and more pizza.

We’ve cooked lots of different types of pizza on it, from crispier American styles to Neopolitan versions. Toppings have ranged from garlic prawns, Margherita, ’Nduja and honey, to tuna and red onion, pepperoni, chicken tikka and mango chutney, mushrooms and truffle oil and marinara.

The flame licks up the side and across the top of the oven for even heat distribution – cheese melts instantly, while the dough crust expands like a fluffed up pillow protecting the sizzling toppings. The end product is always restaurant-quality food.

Because it’s so big, you can create two large pizzas with half-and-half toppings so you’re essentially getting four pizzas made in one sitting – ideal for feeding hungry kids or having mates over for a pizza party (the new and improved BBQ gathering, if you ask me).

One thing it doesn’t come with, as standard, is a cover or a stand. And in my opinion, you need both (unless you’ve got an outdoor kitchen area or sturdy worktop).

The stand is metal and takes a bit of time to build, however it comes with everything you need to build it – and once it’s up, you’re good to go. It also comes with wheels, which is pretty handy if you want to be moving the oven around your patio.

If you buy the stand, I’d 100% recommend getting the cover that fits over the oven and stand to keep it protected from the elements. You can also get a cover that just sits over the oven.

The cover is one of the best garden furniture covers I’ve seen (we’ve had quite a few varieties over the years) – it’s stormproof and fits over the oven, chimney and stand easily. The toggles at the bottom help to keep it from blowing away, which has been very useful given the blustery storms we’ve been having of late.

We’re also keen to buy the Wood-Fire Control Kit in the coming months to see how cooking with wood (you can also use charcoal in it) alters the taste.

We really had to mull this one over. I think the biggest downside is the cost at £2,499.99. It’s a premium pick, but if you’re serious about outdoor cooking, it’s worth the investment.

Pizza-lovers, of course! It’s definitely a great shout for those who love hosting, throwing parties in their back yard, or have more mouths to feed (ie. families).

The Dome XL doesn’t come cheap, but if you spend a lot of time outdoors, love to experiment with your cooking and/or have kids who are just as pizza-obsessed as you are, it’s certainly worth splashing the cash.

And if you’re after something smaller and a little more budget-friendly, you really can’t go wrong with the Arc XL (£799.99).

Ministers and government officials had to solve a last-minute visa row to keep alive Scotland’s hopes of reaching their first World Cup in 28 years, HuffPost UK can reveal.

Steve Clarke’s team could have been forced to forfeit a crucial qualifying match against Belarus if a solution had not been found.

That would have seen the result being registered as a 3-0 defeat for Scotland, depriving them of three crucial points.

In the end, the game went ahead at Hampden Park in Glasgow last October, Scotland beat Belarus 2-1 and ended up winning their qualifying group by two points.

They will play their first match of this year’s World Cup against Haiti in Boston in the early hours of Sunday morning.

But it can now be revealed that Scotland came close to not qualifying at all because of government sanctions imposed on Belarus because of the country’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

They included a curb on issuing travel visas to Belarussian nationals inside Belarus itself.

When the eastern European minnows played a Nations League tie in Northern Ireland in November 2024, they agreed to travel to neighbouring countries to be issued with their UK visas.

But as the visit to Scotland in October 2025 loomed, their position changed.

The country’s football association told UEFA, the sport’s European governing body, that unless the UK government issued visas for their players and officials inside Belarus, they would not fly to Glasgow for the game.

Under UEFA’s rules, that would have seen Scotland forfeit the game on the grounds that the UK had prevented them from travelling.

No.10, the Scotland Office, Foreign Office, Home Office and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport had to find a way to make sure the Belarus travelling party were awarded visas.

A source said: “It was made very clear that this Labour government cannot be responsible for Scotland failing to qualify for the World Cup.”

In the first round of qualifying matches, Belarus travelled to Athens, where they were thrashed 5-1 by Greece on September 5.

In a last-ditch bid to solve the visa problem, the then immigration minister Seema Malhotra asked the British visa centre in the Greek capital if they could process the Belarus team’s applications while they were in the country.

They agreed to open their offices specially on Saturday, September 6, so their staff could give them their visas, thereby allowing them to travel to Scotland the following month.

A government source said: “It all succeeded, Scotland won the game, and not one of the 49,346 crowd at Hampden ever knew the role that the government in London had played in making sure that game went ahead, and that Scotland stayed on track for the World Cup.”

Ian Murray, who was Scottish Secretary at the time, was one of those involved in making sure the Belarus players got their UK visas and the game went ahead.

He told HuffPost UK: “Like millions of my fellow Scots, I’m absolutely thrilled and so excited that the Tartan Army made it across the Atlantic for our first World Cup in 28 years.

“The serious Belarus visa issue could have derailed Scotland’s qualifying campaign and with it our World Cup dream, so I’m glad it was sorted.

“When you go into government you know you could take the blame for a lot of things going wrong, but this problem was not of our making and solvable.

“The sheer national joy of Scotland going to the World Cup show how important it was to get the Belarus game on. Now hopefully Steve Clarke’s men can go on to have a brilliant tournament, and do us all proud.”

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Ariana Grande has taken aim at Donald Trump and his administration over a new video depicting border patrol agents making arrests which included a snippet of her song.

Earlier this week, the Thank U, Next singer spoke out about a video posted on the White House’s TikTok account with the caption: “Bye-bye. President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history.”

Multiple outlets have reported that the video initially featured Ariana’s 2024 song Bye to soundtrack the video, with the Grammy winner writing in the comments: “Please do not use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense.”

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson later responded (via BBC News): “What’s actually barbaric, inhumane, and heinous are the criminal illegal aliens who have injured and murdered innocent American citizens.”

Interestingly, both Ariana’s comment and the use of her song in the White House’s video now appear to have been erased.

The Wicked star isn’t the only musician to have spoken out about the Trump administration using their songs on social media without permission, though.

Just last week, Olivia Rodrigo said she’d found it “deeply disturbing” to see her song being used in a similar White House video to Ariana’s.

“The fact it was my song in there made me feel even more enraged,” she told Dazed. “What they’re doing is so awful and barbaric and cruel. I am really sad to be in a country that thinks that’s OK.”

Last year, Sabrina Carpenter branded another such video featuring an unauthorised use of her hit Manchild “evil and disgusting”, telling the White House not to “ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda”.

Meanwhile, in response to controversy over a similar clip featuring a Taylor Swift song, a White House official said: “We made this video because we knew fake news media brands […] would breathlessly amplify them. Congrats, you got played.”