A charity afternoon paid a lasting tribute to the memories of two young Bognor Regis hockey players. Jerry Cox’s Invitation XI side, which featured international hockey stars, crossed sticks with the Middleton and Bognor Hockey Club’s men’s team to raise £2,000 for a national charity. The event was organised to raise funds for Cardiac Risk in
On Tuesday 29th June 2010, 70 students from Year 10 in Ernest Bevin College were offered free cardiac screening by the heart charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). As part of this event and to raise awareness and vital funds for CRY, hundreds of Bevin boys raised money for the charity with a series of
In 1993 Howard English collapsed and died while playing a game of rugby. The 32 year-old was a keen sportsman, fit, apparently healthy, and married with three young children. Eleven years later the eldest of those three children, Sebastian, died in identical circumstances to his father. He was just fifteen. Both were victims of Sudden Unexpected
Scott McCollin was a fit young man. He never smoked, he never drank alcohol. Perhaps a rarity for a 20-year old DJ. Rarer still was the way Scott died. After collapsing at a go-karting track whilst on holiday in Lanzarote, the young man was soon pronounced dead at the scene. Doctors say he died from Sudden
By Lisa Williams Kathryn Harries, 56, is an international opera star and former BBC television presenter. On top of her successful singing career she has supported many charities – the latest of which is Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). Kathryn is embarking on a fundraising 32-mile walk from Hampton Court to Tower Hill on Saturday,
Two years after the tragic death of Sebastian English, a 15-year-old boy at Lord Wandsworth College, 15 teachers and pupils ran the Bath Half-marathon in support of the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). Seb died of a rare genetic disorder that had also claimed his father’s life 12 years previously and CRY seeks to
A book promoting the work of a charity that helps people affected by sudden death syndrome was launched last week. The book, entitled 101 Reasons To Get Up In The Morning, has been compiled to raise funds for, and also awareness of, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). It contains inspirational quotes from a variety of
Friends of a Harrow Weald man who died suddenly during a football match are organising a skydive to help fund research into the heart condition that claimed his life. Martyn Simpson, of Brookshill, was 24 when he collapsed while playing for his local team, Parkfield, in August. Although he had no history of heart trouble, he
This picture of tragic Charlotte Wright, taken moments before she died, is to be used for a national campaign calling on the Government to provide heart screening for young people. Charlotte died at just eight years old of sudden heart failure as she scaled a 20ft high tree on a school adventure holiday in Hindhead in
Pub customers are taking time out from the bar to get on their bikes for charity. A team of 28 cyclists, headed by Michael Willis, landlord of the Tite Inn, at Chadlington, started out on Monday on a 120-mile ride through Oxfordshire to Hurley, in Hampshire, and back again. They were joined for the send-off by
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