YOUNG women were encouraged to check for breast cancer at a community awareness day on the weekend.

The Western Community Centre in Cheney Manor invited breast cancer charity CoppaFeel and teamed up with parter Avon cosmetics for the event on Saturday.

Speakers from CoppaFeel, which encourages women under 30 to check for lumps, gave talks to raise awareness.

The event was in memory of the centre's former chairman Sandra Trott who recently died from breast cancer.

Glinn Hambridge, who took over from Sandra as chairman of the community centre when she died last April, said: "She was an amazing woman.

"Even with breast cancer she was running with place and used to do the community bingo.

Bekky Watts, who is one of 150 Boobettes to spread awareness for the charity, had a scare herself after finding a lump four years ago.

"All of us girls have had some kind of relationship to breast cancer," she told the Adver.

"My aunty was diagnosed eight years ago. But we are made to believe it's an older persons disease.

"The more women we reach the more we can help catch it quicker."