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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Remy Greasley

Our Liverpool: Family told 'say goodbye' as man's heart stops for half an hour

Hello and welcome to Our Liverpool.

Applause has poured in after a footballer was kept alive by an opposition player and a heart specialist who just happened to be passing when he suffered a cardiac arrest while playing for his team. John Harkin, 35, was playing for Old Xaverians FC against Larkin FC in Childwall when he suffered the cardiac arrest.

John's heart stopped for 28 minutes, before he was revived with the help of a defibrillator and taken to the Royal. His family was later called and told to say their goodbyes as "it could be it."

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However John pulled through and he was even able to attend the reverse fixture to thank the opposition player for saving his life.

Mum fears her family will be torn apart after 'devastating' letter comes in the post

A Dingle mum living in Australia has been told she must leave her home and faces seperation from her partner and her step-daughter. Ellie Jones, 27, met her partner Louis, from Australia, in Liveprool almost six years ago but now the family they have created could be torn apart after issues stemming from Ellie's partner visa, which has been refused.

'You haven't lived if you haven't baked' Liverpool's little known delicacy

Readers have been sharing their memories of one Liverpool childhood delicacy from that "you haven't lived if you haven't baked." The Wet Nelly cake is a treat modelled after a Nelson cake which started life as a bun loaf before it evolved into the syrup-soaked fruit cake it is now.

Merseyrail announces late night Eurovision timetable

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