IN BRIEF
TIM COGLEY CARDIAC
SCREENING FOUNDATION
On 9th April 2017, Tim Cogley, an apparently fit and
healthy 34 year old, suffered a fatal heart attack whilst
walking home after a night out with friends. Despite
showing no symptoms, Tim had a 75% cholesterol
blockage of the left descending coronary artery.
Sadly, Tim’s case is far from unique, and we hear of similar cases among
young men and women on a weekly basis, on Merseyside and more
widely.
The Tim Cogley Foundation has been set up by family and friends in Tim’s
memory with the aim of increasing awareness of the need for coronary
heart screening, particularly in the 18 to 40 age group where very little
pro-active screening currently takes place, and to offer opportunities for
screening within Merseyside. Randox Health, the global preventative
health and diagnostic company, is to run the Foundation’s pilot cardiac
screening of 18 – 39 year olds in Wirral this November, Foundation Chair
Frank Cogley has announced.
Frank said, “Since Tim’s tragic death in April last year, Randox Health
has been supporting our concept of Mersey-wide personalised blood
testing for this age group, currently something not routinely provided by
the NHS. The procedure is simple: our aim, likewise; to help reduce the
number of premature and preventable deaths. It’s a major step forward
to have secured this partnership with a prestigious and internationally
renowned company and we are immensely grateful to Dr Peter
FitzGerald, Randox’s founder and Managing Director for this gesture
and his continuing encouragement”. Adding his thanks on behalf of
Foundation Members and Patrons, Jan Molby said, “It’s a brilliant result
to have landed such a generous agreement and to have the experience and
expertise of Randox’s Liverpool Clinic Staff delivering our service – it’s
been great to get to know them personally”.
The Foundation has released on its website and Facebook page, details of
dates, times and the Wirral venues for the November pilot, and invites
18 – 39 year-olds to take up and benefit from this free offer. Consultations
have been held with Wirral Medical Centres including The Warrens and
Greasby and with Consultant Cardiologists who are backing this exciting
initiative. For more information, visit www.timcogleyfoundation.com
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QUENTIN BLAKE AND JOHN
YEOMAN: 50 YEARS OF
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Quentin Blake and John Yeoman: 50 Years of Children’s
Books opens at the Lady Lever Art Gallery on 19 October
and runs until 3 March 2019. It is the first exhibition to be
shown outside London that celebrates illustrator Blake’s
decades-long partnership with the author and will feature
more than 40 works, including illustrations and books by
the two.
Quentin Blake has had a number of extended collaborations with
writers such as Roald Dahl, but the longest of all has been with John
Yeoman. Quentin first asked John to write a book for him to illustrate
in 1960.
The result – A Drink of Water – sparked their artistic relationship that
has lasted for more than half a century. Almost 50 projects have been
delivered in that time, including their most recent book All The Year
Round, which was published in 2017.
The original drawings from many of their books and novels for
children, as well as audio books will feature in the exhibition.
David Moffatt, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Lady Lever,
said: “Generations have grown up with the works of Quentin Blake and
John Yeoman. Their friendship has produced books and stories that are
captivating and magical. Visitors to 50 Years of Children’s Books will
get a real sense of their unique and special partnership, and see how the
exhibition beautifully celebrates it”.
For more information, visit:
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/fiftyyears