Grieving parents seek compulsory checks at birth
The parents of an eight-year-old boy who died while playing football a year ago are using the first anniversary of his death to call for compulsory heartbeat testing of new-born babies.
Monia and Nick Payne, of Westerham Road, Sittingbourne, believe their son Adam may have had an irregular heartbeat which would have been detected by an ECG check and treatment given to prevent the condition being fatal.
He collapsed at the town