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Two mothers who met over the “horrific heartbreak” of losing their two children to cardiac arrest are working together to provide free screenings.

Donna Parker’s daughter Vicky Parker, 30, died in August 2023. The mother-of-two, from Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, had an undiagnosed heart condition.

Two weeks later, Lesley Mease’s son Wilson Shepherd, 25, who lived a few miles away in Barrow, also died.

The two women said they had a “life sentence of heartbreak” but added they “were meant to meet” and encourage young people to get their hearts screened.

Ms Parker worked full time as a teaching assistant before her death.

“Like all working mums she was always busy, but she was sociable and was always cooking for people,” her mother said.