Cardiac Screening sessions for young people will be held in memory of a teenage Redcar heart victim.

Ian Bowen died aged 19 during a night out with friends in October 1996.

Apparently healthy, he collapsed just an hour after leaving home.

He had Wolfe-Parkinson-White Syndrome - an extra electrical connection in the heart and one of several conditions in the Sudden Death Syndrome family.

Each week up to eight apparently fit and healthy young people die of undiagnosed heart conditions in the UK.

Ian's condition could have been detected by an electrocardiogram, ECG, and it is an ECG machine that Ian's parents, Maralyn and Kenny, are offering to families who feel they may be at risk.

Devastated by Ian's death the couple teamed up with national charity Cardiac Risk in the Young CRY which promotes awareness of Sudden Death Syndrome in the young and endorses screening like the ones now fixed up for 16th and 17th March in Redcar, by appointment only.

It is the second time the Bowens have arranged sessions in Redcar.

Kenny said:" It is about putting peoples minds at rest.  It's for anyone who thinks there might be a problem.  That can be families with histories of heart problems to youngsters with palpitations, or get particularly tired after exercise."

The Bowens, who also counsel for CRY have raised thousands of pounds since Ian's death and their efforts have resulted in the funding of an ECG machine.

The CRY coffers will be further boosted when friend Angela Inman of Redcar, runs the London Marathon.

Protocol for the March screenings has been devised and approved by experts at St George's Hospital Medical School in London.

Dr Sam Firoozi, a fellow of the British Heart Foundation, will carry out the Redcar tests, which are sponsored by Reg Vardy Cleveland, Cleveland Community Foundation, Huntsman, the Jack Brunton Trust and SBV Fabrication.