A SINGER who has battled breast cancer has released a charity music CD to help raise funds for a dedicated breast unit in Worcester.

Singer and calendar girl Christell O’Shea – who is now in remission – and Sharon Robinson form musical duo the T-Birds. They have released a CD featuring some classic songs to help raise cash towards a new £2.5 million breast unit at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

The CD will cost £7.99 and is available to buy now from SHE Hair Extensions in Angel Place and TJs Hair and Beauty in Cranham Drive, Warndon.

Songs on the CD include The Summer of 69, Proud Mary, If Tomorrow Never Comes and I Saw Her Standing There.

The duo will also promote the CD, called Looking Back, at supermarkets in the city next week, including Sainsbury’s and Tesco.

The CD was officially launched by the duo at the Punchbowl Pub in Lichfield Avenue, Ronkswood, Worcester, with the help of landlady Sue Morris who has also successfully battled breast cancer and has helped provide the backing they need to sell the album.

Miss O’Shea, who also features in Worcestershire Breast Unit Campaign calendar for November, said: “It’s a bit distressing for patients to have to swap from clinic to clinic. This unit is all in one. It takes the pressure off a bit when you’re not being pushed from pillar to post.

“I would also like this opportunity to thank the breast cancer team at Worcestershire Royal Hospital who looked after me.”

Miss O’Shea was diagnosed with breast cancer in August last year and had to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy and have the lump and her lymph nodes removed. But scans show she is now in remission.

The duo also plan to launch a charity evening at the Punchbowl on February 13 next year when they hope to sell a Valentine’s Day album called New Love which will also raise money for the campaign. Your Worcester News has officially adopted the Worcestershire Breast Unit Campaign until charity leaders have raised the £2.5 million needed to create the unit which will be based at an existing building at 220 Newtown Road, near the Charles Hastings Education Centre.

The campaign has been organised so that patients have a one-stop shop rather than travel to clinics spread out across several floors within the main Worcestershire Royal Hospital building. Surgeons, patients and charity leaders hope the environment will be less cramped, less clinical and that patient waiting times will be reduced by half.