Tory MP Caroline Nokes said that check-up cancellations and women s fears of attending GP clinics in the pandemic could mean up to 600,000 women miss out on getting a smear test.
Marina Wheeler: ‘I’ll never forget the people who were there when I was in trouble’
Marina Wheeler and daughter Lara tell of her diagnosis with cervical cancer, and urge women to attend screenings
15 January 2021 • 9:00pm
Marina Wheeler, right, is raising awareness of cervical cancer with the help of her daughter Lara
Credit: Andrew Crowley/The Telegraph
Twelfth Night is well and truly over when Marina Wheeler appears on my screen. But over her shoulder, at the far end of her lovely, light-filled living space, stands an enormous, lavishly decorated Christmas tree. It’s just so pretty that she can’t bear to lose it, she says: “And I heard on Radio 4 that taking down the tree on the Twelfth Day is a 19th‑century invention, so it’s perfectly fine to keep it up. These are unusual times. We all have to do whatever’s necessary to stay cheery.”