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Inside Out North West: 23/02/2015

23/02/2015

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The mothers who are campaigning for heart screening for all 14- to 35-year-olds.

Dianne Oxberry speaks to two mothers campaigning for heart screening for all 14- to 35-year-olds. Jayne Barrett investigates the unprecedented reforms to the welfare state.

With young people dying from sudden cardiac death in the UK every week, Dianne Oxberry speaks to the mothers of two north west victims who are campaigning for heart screening for all 14- to 35-year-olds. In mid-February, the biggest shake-up in the history of the welfare state sees its first significant national roll-out. Reforms which have been tested out here in the north west. But is the system really ready to roll? Jayne Barrett investigates and asks if we will see real progress updates before the General Election? The playwright Willy Russell has been entertaining audiences in the theatre and on screen for nearly 40 years with hits like Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine. Now Educating Rita is returning to the Liverpool stage for the first time in 13 years. Tony Snell goes to meet him.

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