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Football Club’s Community Heart Tests

30th July 202430th July 2024 Graham Wright

Organisers of a heart screening event in Ruddington at the weekend say they were delighted by the turnout. Hosted by Ruddington Village Football Club in the ‘Jubilee Clubhouse’ at Elms Park, a hundred young people aged from 14 to 35 went along to be tested by a specialist team from the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). They completed a medical history questionnaire and echocardiograms (ECGs) were carried out. CRY’s community visit on Saturday (27th July) was made possible by recent club fundraisers, with both players and local people benefitting from…

Rebecca’s Swim in Memory of Dad

27th June 202327th June 2023 Graham Wright

A Ruddington resident who did her first fundraising challenge last summer to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK is encouraging other villagers to do likewise this year. Rebecca Thompson (pictured top with her dad) wanted to take part in ‘Swim15’ because bowel cancer runs in her family. Sadly her father, Tim, died of the disease aged just 60 in January 2021. “My dad had a cancerous polyp removed in 2017″ recalls Rebecca. “On follow up CT scans he was told that the cancer had spread, which meant it was inoperable.…