Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Berwick, has pledged her support to the British Heart Foundations' Campaign to tackle heart disease in the UK.
The British Heart Foundation estimate that around 7 million people, and 10,800 in the Berwick constituency alone, live with cardiovascular disease, which includes all heart conditions, The campaign aims include; raising awareness, improving the UK's poor survival rates, ensuring sufficient care and treatment from an early stage and for Government funding for pioneering scientific research to be ring-fenced. Anne-Marie Trevelyan said; "I fully support this campaign and endorse the work that the BHF are doing to highlight this condition which is responsible for around one in four deaths in the UK. I am also acutely aware of this problem personally as my father died from cardiovascular disease when he was only 41 and I was two".