George Tyndale : Red faced at being sent to Coventry

The artificial tanners of Coventry are the heaviest users of sunbeds in Britain.

A new survey says that the average user in the City lies under the lamps 84 times a year.

That's way ahead of even the next three on the list, Leeds, Edinburgh and Gloucester.

No explanation has been offered for why Coventrians should be prepared to take more risks with skin cancer than anybody else in Britain.

Can't they afford proper holidays? Are they the vainest people the country? Or just the most dim?

Or maybe it has nothing to do with appearance at all.

Perhaps if you live in Coventry then the urge to go and lie down in a confined space shut off from everything around you is just irresistible.