SPORTSMEN across Northwich are helping to raise awareness of heart defects in memory of a Kingsmead man.

Cuddington Football Club and Northwich Rugby Club are both planning to fundraise for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), with players also wearing CRY T-shirts during training.

The move was inspired by Aaron Dixon, who had an inherited condition called arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, which neither he nor his family knew anything about.

He died in 2011, aged 23, a fit and healthy man who enjoyed going to the gym and playing football.

Since losing Aaron his family, including mum Deborah, dad Gary and sister Hollie, have done all they can to stop other families suffering the same loss.

They work with CRY to fundraise for and to hold screening sessions to pick up on any heart defects in young people.

Cuddington Football Club aim to raise money throughout the year through events and fines from their players.

Northwich Rugby Club held a collection at their first games of the season, which will pay for screening days next year, where members of both clubs will be screened.

For more information email Deborah on debdixon002@gmail.com or search for Brothers In Arms on Facebook.