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Debbie Hall

West Lothian dad's brush with death hopes to inspire others to follow their dreams

The saying ‘live every day like it’s your last’ might sound like a cliché, but to one West Lothian man it has real meaning.

Scott Fleming has pledged to do just that after his heart stopped with no warning while he was playing football in December 2004 and he had to be revived several times on the way to hospital.

He later found out he had Wolff-Parkinson-Whyte Syndrome, which causes the heart to beat abnormally fast, and spent five days in a coma after the terrifying incident.

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