SPORTSMEN across Northwich are helping to raise awareness of heart defects in memory of a Kingsmead man.

Northwich Rugby Club and Cuddington Football Club are both planning to fundraise for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), with players also wearing CRY T-shirts during training.

Together they are working with CRY to fundraise for and to hold screening sessions to pick up on any heart defects in young people.

The move was inspired by Aaron Dixon, who had an inherited condition called arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, which neither he nor his family knew anything about.

James Underhll of Northwich RUFC said "weekly at least twelve young people in the UK die suddenly as a result of undiagnosed heart conditions. We hope to raise awareness and fund screenings so that others are not taken from their families too young".

Northwich Rugby Club held a collection at their first games of the season, which will pay for screening days next year, where members of both clubs will be screened.

For more information email Deborah on debdixon002@gmail.com or visit CRY .