North East Postcard

Families from the North East of England gathered together on Saturday 2nd May to help launch CRY’s new ’12 a week’ postcard campaign in their area of the UK. This was the fifth such regional launch of the new postcard campaign, following on from launches in the North West, Midlands, Northern Ireland and South East. The


I don't want any more parents to find their child dead

North East families are campaigning for a national screening programme to cut the number of deaths put down to sudden death syndrome. Mitya Underwood meets them. Ann Wilson will never forget the tragic moment she found her son dead. On January 2, 2004, the mum-of-two witnessed a sight that no parent should ever have to see. Walking into her


Family stepping in to fund research

A family is planning a sponsored hike along the South Shields coast to raise funds for research into Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS). The Wilson family, their friends and neighbours, will be walking for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) in memory of James Wilson, 24. He died in his sleep at home in Washington in