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Around 50% of heart attacks and strokes are associated with high blood pressure - and the NHS says that getting yours checked 'could save your life'

Jill Pell will set off next month.

Debbie Kearney was born with a heart defect but wasn't diagnosed until she was close to having heart failure at just six-months-old - and was transfused with 14 pints of blood before an operation

The teen had no idea there was something wrong with his heart but ended up needing an urgent transplant

Sports-mad Ed Burdge, 17, had no idea there was something wrong with his heart but ended up needing an urgent transplant after a cough turned out to be something more sinister

Events are being held across the UK

'I'm so proud of Sophie and the way she's handled all that she's been through'

A dad from East Renfrewshire is preparing to run, cycle, climb and walk in a series of crazy challenges over the next four months, to raise money for research into heart and circulatory diseases, in memory of his "wonderful" mum.

Builder Kevin Johnson, 34, won the four-bed Victorian-style town house in Islinghton, north London, in a £50-a-ticket raffle set up by Omaze Million Pound House Draw

Over half of Brits don't know how to perform CPR, and 45 per cent admit they wouldn't be able to recognise the signs of a cardiac arrest

Over half of Brits don't know how to perform CPR, and 45% admit they wouldn't be able to recognise the signs of a cardiac arrest