A generous Lancashire Telegraph competition winner has boosted a scheme to screen Darwen youngsters for heart defects. Janet Stuart, 36, of Peniscowles, Blackburn, won the Rovers into Europe competition earlier this year and donated her prize to Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) charity. Four VIP tickets to watch Blackburn Rovers’ European home game against FC
Neil Wickers
Postcard campaign aims to save lives
Families whose lives have been devastated by Sudden Cardiac Death are hoping a new campaign will help save the lives of others. National charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) will unveil a new postcard campaign on Friday that features the faces of eight young people from the North West who died suddenly of previously undetected
Bowling reward
Darwen: A charity-bowling match was held at Two Gates bowling club, Anyon Street, on Sunday August 29. The match raised £214 for the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity (CRY), set up by the parents of two young local men. Neil Wickers, 31, and David Staff, 17, from Darwen and Hoddlesden, died as a result of
Free heart screening sessions
Free screening for heart defects will be held at Darwen Access Point, in Duckworth Street, Darwen, on Saturday, June 19. Appointments must be made in advance by ringing !REMOVED! Screening sessions have been organised and funded by the CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) and The Neil Wickers and David Staff Memorial Fund.
My son would have been so proud
Lancashire Evening Telegraph – 24 November 2003 By Andrew Turner One person above all would have been proud to see Irene Wickers walk away with the Pride of East Lancashire Outstanding Volunteer award, her son, Neil, who died suddenly of a rare heart condition aged just 31. He was a regular gym user who appeared to
Tribute to the sons they loved and lost
For most people, raising £1,000 at a Christmas Fair would be achievement enough. But for two local families it is just a fraction of the money raised since they started their fund-raising over four years ago. Irene Wickers, from Darwen, and Granville Staff, from Hoddlesdon, set up the Neil Wickers and David Staff memorial fund as
