BBC presenter’s melanoma campaign ‘saved our lives
Source: BBC, April 2025
A couple has credited a BBC presenter’s campaign to raise awareness of skin cancer risks with saving their lives.
Before his death from melanoma skin cancer in 2015, BBC Radio Derby’s Colin Bloomfield, 33, set up the Colin Bloomfield Sun Safe Campaign, with help from the Nottinghamshire-based charity Skcin, to try to prevent similar cases.
After deciding to get their skin checked out by doctors because of Mr Bloomfield’s campaign, John and Linda Williams, from Mackworth in Derby, were told they had moles that were cancerous.