lIttle Britain  TV star David Walliams had an ECG heart test yesterday to help promote the Heart Screening Awareness Partnership. 

The event was to raise awareness of Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome, which kills up to eight young people a week in Britain. 

Walliams is fronting the campaign for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (Cry).  Electrical giant Philips will be supporting the campaign with ECG machines, technical support, care for patients and long-term strategy.  Walliams, a patron of Cry, agreed to be filmed having an ECG and Echo test to demonstrate how easy and simple it is to have such tests.