A Newcastle mum joined former Love Island star Amber Gill and cervical cancer survivors on a charity trek across the Jordanian desert.
Tracy Virgo, from Whickham, spent five days battling 40C heat to cover a distance of 75km in order to raise funds for Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust. The 54-year-old accountant was inspired to support the charity after experiencing firsthand what it was like to have an abnormal smear test result in her 20s.
Tracy had to undergo a loop biopsy, a procedure that is carried out to remove pre-cancerous changes from the cervix at an early stage following her smear result. Joining Tracy on the trek were a number of cervical cancer survivors who had received help from the charity.
