A Scots man has been arrested and charged in connection with large scale fraud offences spanning across four years.
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A Scots woman ‘diagnosed’ her own cancer after using smartphone app to check a worrying mole
Laura O’Donnell had become increasingly concerned after noticing the tiny growth on her stomach just before lockdown.
And it was after going on Google that she found the app - which came back with a red alert that her mole was at ‘high risk’ of being melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
The 43-year-old from Bothwell in Lanarkshire says: “I have been very lucky.
"If I hadn’t used the app I probably wouldn’t have gone to my GP until now - and God knows what it could have been like at this stage.
“I’m a positive person, and I’m just glad it was diagnosed early and removed straight away. But I have no doubt that, in the long term, it could have saved my life.”
Laura first spotted the dark-coloured mole on her stomach in February 2020.
She says: “I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I must have been in my underwear because I looked in the mirror and spotted a dark mole or a freckle on my stomach.
“I’m quite pale, with red hair and blue eyes, and I’ve got a lot of freckles, but this just didn’t look right.
“I took a picture and sent it to my mum and sisters on WhatsApp, but it began to play on my mind.”
Laura adds: “Throughout the years I’d often asked my doctor if a mark or a freckle looked okay or not, and I was always told not to worry about it.
"But this was just at that stage as we went into lockdown that you couldn’t get to see or speak to your GP - and like everyone else I was conscious of not putting pressure on the NHS. But it bothered me.”
That’s when Laura, a medical salesperson for an American company which sells obstetric and gynaecological devices, had an idea.
“I thought in this day and age, there must be
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