In response to your health check article (CW January 3), sadly in May last year we lost our son to an undiagnosed heart condition. Charlie was an extremely healthy eight-year-old who collapsed whilst playing rounders at school. As you can imagine this turned our world upside down and while stumbling around looking for answers we came across CRY (Cardiac
Five local mothers are using their 'mummy power' to help highlight the issue of cardiac risk among young people in Ards. Following the well publicised deaths of several young athletes in recent months, the ladies, who are all mums of sport-playing children attending school in Newtownards, decided to investigate the possibility of having cardiac testing organised for
A family has urged young people to get screened for heart conditions after a teenager died from an undetected abnormality. Darwen Vale High School pupil Rebecca Duxbury, or Becky as she was known, was found dead in her bed at the family home in Lady Close, Lower Darwen. An inquest heard Becky had complained of being
The year's first screening of young people from Essex for heart conditions similar to the one which led to the tragic sudden death of footballer Phil O'Donnell will begin next month. The event has been organised by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young's (CRY) East of England representative Caroline Gard who lives in Frinton and
A police community support officer is planning to get on his bike and cycle across an African country despite the civil unrest it is experiencing. Chris Blanksby, from Hilton, has signed up for a 400km ride across Kenya to help support four different heart funds. The 21-year-old, whose beat covers the Eaton area of Burton, is
Five local mothers are using their ‘mummy power’ to help highlight the issue of cardiac risk among young people in Ards. Following the well publicised deaths of several young athletes in recent months, the ladies, who are all mums of sport-playing children attending school in Newtownards, decided to investigate the possibility of having cardiac testing organised
The family album brims with pictures of a bouncing baby whose beaming smile would stay with him into adulthood and who by his mother’s admission ‘grew into his ears’. But today the only pictures being added are by his friends on the gonetoosoon website – the shocking suddenness of his death still as baffling today as
The show will go on…even if 'Robbie Williams' got a better offer. A top Robbie tribute act WILL be 'entertaining you' at a sell-out Live in Hope charity event next week. Robbie, who is better known as artist JK, has entertained more than 1.5m people in 14 countries with his hit Robbie Williams tribute show, has
Preston is to join forces with Manchester in the name of charity to celebrate footballing links between the two cities. Manchester United greats, former goal keeper Alex Stepney and midfielder Paddy Crerand, along with Sir Tom Finney, will head an all-star line-up at a special football dinner at Preston North End. At least 20 other players
A genetic test to screen for a heart condition which is the most common cause of death in young athletes could be available within a decade. Leading expert Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said the screening method would soon be available to replace current tests which use ultra-sound to scan the