Two Sunday League pub team players will experience the football thrill of a lifetime at a bitter sweet occasion at Hinckley tomorrow. Adam Griffiths and Giles Wilson will be playing alongside soccer legends who are gathering at the Marston's Stadium to pay their special tribute to Matt Gadsby, a player whose life was cruelly cut short.
The People's Race jockeys aren't just battling for glory – they're after a share of the £100,000 charity prize fund donated by John Smith's and Ladbrokes. Each rider on the start line will earn their good causes £5,000, with an extra £50,000 cheque going to the winner. As you would expect from a group of racing nuts,
The anxious wit for the family of tragic Matt Gadsby to find out if his three sisters suffer from the same condition that killed him is finally over. All three girls got the all-clear from doctors last week. "It was very emotional", explained Matt's dad Andrew, aged 49. "We've had to live with that as well
A grieving family believe they could have helped investigations into their son's death if they had been allowed to speak to the pathologist. Parents Norma and Stanley Payton knew son Rick was not eating when he stopped breathing but a 'game of Chinese whispers' led a doctor to think he choked on chocolate cake. They received
Coleraine Inst pupils David Anderson and Steven Dobbin presenting a cheque to John Lundy of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). The money was raised through a school charity collection.
Jon Cotterill-Bolsover had everything to look forward to. His fiancé was expecting his baby and his life was falling into place after a stressful divorce. But Jon, just 28, was about to get the shock of his life. Sitting in front of a consultant, he was hoping for a simple explanation for the blackouts he'd been having.
A charity fundraising day being held tomorrow in memory of a young Shropshire student who collapsed and died suddenly while working in a Manchester restaurant is aiming to raise £10,000. Friends and colleagues of Becky Heathcote, 22, from Blackbow Hill, Ruy-ton-X1-Towns, who died on November 6 while working at Frankie and Benny’s restaurant in Salford Quays,
Rugby star-turned dancer Matt Dawson is to give his feet a different sort of exercise – by running this weekend's National Bath Half Marathon. The former England and British Lions player who came second in TV's Strictly Come Dancing will be taking part in the race alongside his girlfriend, former Miss Northern Ireland Joanne Salley. He
Chocoholics are being offered the chance to win a whopping five-kilo Easter egg in a raffle that will benefit two good causes. The two-feet high egg, worth £100, has been manufactured by Kernow Confectionary who have donated it to raise money for the Cornwall Air Ambulance and CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). The giant egg
When her son Nick died, Jenny Thomas says that she lost not only her child, but part of her own future. "I'll never get to see his children and I'll never know what a success he would have made of his life," she said. Nick, a talented rapper and lyricist, died at the wheel of a