FORMER Greenock nurse and Euromillions jackpot winner Chris Weir is supporting a campaign aimed at promoting the early detection of breast cancer.

Chris — who scooped nearly £162 million with husband Colin in 2011 — is now the country’s first breast health awareness ambassador.

She will be donating £250,000 to the cause in each year of the Breast Cancer Care Scotland campaign’s three-year life cycle.

Chris said: “In my career, I saw at first-hand the challenges many people confront when accessing and dealing with information that the rest of us take for granted.

“For example, people with learning difficulties face barriers such as trouble understanding breast awareness messages – written information is not always appropriate or accessible, or they are simply overlooked.

“But breast cancer doesn’t discriminate.

“When Breast Cancer Care Scotland talked to me about the low survival rates here and I realised that this situation was even worse for hard-to-reach groups, I immediately agreed to support their campaign.” Called B-Aware, the new campaign has been developed in response to research showing that the breast cancer incidence rate in Scotland has increased by 14 per cent in the past decade.