A dad says he hopes he will be making his daughter proud by delivering hundreds of heart tests to Nottingham schools in her memory. Aged just 25, Amy Osborne died six years ago in her sleep from a rare condition known as brugada syndrome, which affects the electrical messages controlling a person's heart rate.
Undiagnosed heart conditions are said to claim the lives of 12 young people in the UK every week, with 80% of people not experiencing any symptoms. Soon after losing his daughter, 57-year-old Andrew Osborne, along with Amy's mum and two elder sisters, decided to set up a memorial fund that would raise money for heart screening tests across the country.
Andrew, who lives just outside Melton Mowbray, says the fund has already raised enough money to pay for more than 600 children to be tested. Now, he has just raised nearly £170,000 for the cause by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic.
