CHOOSE THE RIGHT PAIR

TO PROTECT yourself from sun damage — all year round — the advice is to sit in the shade, wear a wide-brimmed hat and wear sunglasses.

Sunglasses should be a large, wraparound style that fits tightly, to block out the sun’s rays from all sides. Another option is glasses that cover your eyebrows, the bone below your eye and as much of the edge of your nose as possible.

The sunglasses should also have a CE mark, which means they meet European safety standards to block the sun’s harmful UV rays.

Sunglasses without UV protection could be worse than wearing no sunglasses as the dark lenses make the pupils of your eye dilate and let in more harmful rays.