A collection held in memory of a Preston man at Preston North End

A specialist ambulance appeal in the name of a teenager who died has been given a cash boost by jazz fans. Members of the Concorde Club at Eastleigh handed £2,750 to the Smile4 Rich fund. The charity drive aims to raise £80,000 for a specially equipped ambulance for the Wessex Neurological Centre at Southampton General Hospital.

A picture of a Malvern man who died of a heart attack at the age of 32 is being used to raise awareness of cardiac problems in the young. Scott Jackson, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2000, is one of eight faces on a postcard showing people killed by a heart condition before they

Twenty years after the death of their teenage son, a Workington family have joined a campaign to try and save other youngsters from early deaths. Craig Dixon (left), who was tipped for sports stardom, was just 14 when he collapsed and died without warning on a training run on March 14, 1985, and the family now

A teenage authoress is taking her first step to stardom at an official signing of her debut book. Julie Tanner, 13, approached more than 400 celebrities to see what inspired them, and compiled them in her book, 101 Reasons to Get Up in the Morning. Now, hotly tipped to become a Christmas bestseller, it has hit

Heart checks which could save young people's lives are being offered at a hugely subsidised fee. A screening clinic will be run at Colchester General Hospital in partnership with the CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) charity. The clinics were originally set up through the efforts and pressure from Frinton woman Caroline Gard, whose son, Andy, died

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