The memory of a Bamber Bridge sportsman who died from an undetected heart condition is helping prevent similar tragedies. Rugby player Stevie Wiggins was just 30 when he died in his sleep during a stint working in America in 2005. Now, after years of work, family and friends have raised enough money to run a free
Hospital porters and doctors swapped their scrubs for football kits to raise money for machines that monitor heartbeats. The charity football match between staff at Dorset County Hospital raised £6,900 together with other fundraising events in aid of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). With the money the charity purchased four new state-of-the-art Lifecard heart monitors
The University of Glamorgan is launching Wales’ first cardiac screening clinic for young people on November 1. Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) says a simple and quick ECG test could save the lives of the twelve healthy young people who die each week in the UK from undiagnosed heart conditions. CRY urges people between the
A football tournament will be held at the weekend in memory of a man who lost his life while playing the sport he loved. Joe Langdon, 36, a fit and healthy father-of-two from Stevenage, died a year ago this November while playing five-a-side football. It was later discovered that he had an undiagnosed heart condition and
Popular North West traditional group, CRAIC, has been backed by BBC Northern Ireland news presenter and patron of health awareness charity, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY, Mark Carruthers, ahead of the band's concert next month in aid of CRY. Speaking ahead of the concert on Friday, November 14, Mr Carruthers said: "I'm delighted that this
A Littlehampton mother whose son died aged just 24 has backed a new national campaign to raise awareness of the ‘staggering’ number of young people dying from a heart condition, writes Roger Green. Veronica Thorn’s son, Ben, died in 2001, the first of three tragedies to devastate he family in just 18 months, in which she
As Big Ben struck noon outside the Houses of Parliament the Hunter family from Haslemere were joined by MPs at the launch of new charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). CRY has been launched to create awareness of a condition that kills young people under 35 and to get more nationwide screening for those at
An eight-year-old boy who died from sudden cardiac death is featured in a campaign to prevent others being killed by the condition. Charlie Morettes’ heart stopped suddenly while he was playing rounders at his school in Sutton-at-Hone on May 16 last year. He had been healthy and had showed no symptoms to suggest cardiac problems, but
Telford MP David Wright met bereaved families to launch a new campaign to highlight the number of deaths from conditions which cause sudden cardiac death in the young. Mr Wright met the families of 12 young people who died from previously undiagnosed heart conditions. CRY was founded in May 1995 to raise awareness of Sudden Arrhythmia
Students from across the north west teamed up to raise over £2,000 for research into the condition which tragically killed a young sports student at Pendleton College. Daniel Young was only 16 when he was struck down on the football pitch in 2005 minutes after scoring a goal for his side. Investigations later proved he had