A man with no symptoms was diagnosed with a "silent killer" thanks to watching BBC Breakfast
Prescot man Ted Sayers would usually be in work when the BBC One show was broadcast, until he retired as a lab technician at Liverpool John Moores University six months before. But in February last year he was watching athlete Joe Appiah talk about how a conversation with a friend and hurdling rival saved his life.
When Joe mentioned they play five-a-side football together, Ted's ears pricked up. The 61-year-old told the ECHO: "That's what stuck with me because I play five-a-side. I don't know why that was the thing that stuck with me, but it was. It made me take more note, plus the fact I actually lost my uncle through prostate cancer in the Christmas before that."
