A father has shared a candid selfie to raise awareness of prostate cancer.

Businessman Kurt Jewson, 44, displays his catheter, colostomy bag and scars in the picture which he shared with friends online.

He urged men to spend just five minutes researching the disease and checking for symptoms.

The father-of-two, from Cornwall, posted the picture, saying: "Here I am in all my tubby, pale and middle aged (I'm 44) glory."

ITV News Correspondent Rupert Evelyn reports:

Mr Jewson found blood in his urine in 2014 but his doctor dismissed it as an infection.

However he said: "It wasn't an infection. It was a symptom of prostate cancer."

He added: "As it was, my cancer was free to grow and grow for another 12 months without anyone knowing."

He said if he had known earlier, his prognosis could have been very different.

Mr Jewson shared his photo in the hope that more people might spend five minutes on the Prostate Cancer website - a move he says "could save your life".

The post has been shared more than 210,000 times.