Bride told THREE Times she was too Young for Smear Test, given two years to live

Proudly posing for a photograph with her new husband, Katie Brickell smiles on her wedding day.

It was one of the happiest events of the 25-year-old's life, but her joy masked bleak news.

She has been told she has two years at most to relish her marriage to husband Rolan after she was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer.

Katie Hilliard and Rolan Brickell brought their wedding day forward after doctors failed to pick up her cervical cancer despite her requesting three smear tests

Doctors might have been able to save her life if the disease had been spotted earlier, but she was denied smear tests three times because she was considered too young.

She is now calling on the Government to lower the age for regular smear tests from 25 to 16.

Women were previously eligible at 20 but the policy in England was changed because the risk of cervical cancer in younger women was thought to be negligible.

'I'm angry that the age has been raised from 20 to 25,' said Mrs Brickell, who is on leave from her job as an account executive for a City insurance broker.

'People keep being told that the chance of getting cervical cancer under the age of 25 is really small but there are so many women like me. I just don't want it to happen to anyone else.'

Mrs Brickell first requested a smear test when she was 19 and studying biology at Sussex University but was told she had to wait until she was 20.