BOLTON-born broadcaster Sara Cox is taking part in a new awareness campaign urging people to learn the symptoms of ovarian cancer.

The former Radio 1 DJ is one of 11 celebrities taking part in the campaign for the charity Ovacome.

She is joined by actors Jenny Agutter, Nigel Havers, Jane Asher, Terri Dwyer, Omid Djalili, MPs Caroline Lucas and David Lammy, singers Hollie Cook and Kele Le Roc, and broadcaster and former MP John Nicolson.

As part of the campaign, they were photographed with something teal - the signature colour of ovarian cancer. The pictures were taken by Ming Yeung, a professional cameraman and editor for Getty Images, and husband of Ovacome member Rebecca Readshaw, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer five years ago.

Mr Yeung chose to shoot the campaign to help other women, after his wife’s stomach pain was repeatedly dismissed by her GP as a parasitic infection from a six-month stint in India. Rebecca also experienced bloating but thought nothing of it as she had a history of irritable bowel syndrome.

According to Ovacome, most women ignore bloating despite the fact nine in 10 women diagnosed with the disease will have suffered from the symptoms.

The charity hope the campaign will reach out to as many women as possible, spreading awareness of its BEAT acronym of the main symptoms: B is for bloating that is persistent and doesn’t come and go; E is for eating less and feeling fuller quicker; A is for abdominal and pelvic pain felt most days and T is for toilet changes, both urination and bowel.

Mr Yeung said: “I can’t help thinking if Rebecca had been seen by a woman GP her ovarian cancer may have been picked up earlier. As it happens it was stage 3 when it was finally diagnosed, over a year after her first visit to the GP. Hopefully, this campaign will make everyone aware - including men - of what to look out for and not to dismiss symptoms even in a young woman when it is much more likely to be something less serious.”