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INSIDE THIS WEEK: Music and fun on the way at this weekend’s Waterloo Festival HUNDREDS of people are set to flock to Crosby Coastal Park this weekend to enjoy this year’s Waterloo Festival. It will be held across Saturday, June 15 and Sunday, June 16 with more than 200 artists and entertainers to join 22 live bands across two stages with headliners including Chainsaw Haircut, Caramel Dragons, Viva La Coldplay and Led Zed. The Waterloo Festival, created in 2016 by local resident Steve McGriskin, is organised by not-forprofit company Waterloo Sunrise CIC. In addition to the Logic Music Zone, the festival will also host the Greatest Hits Radio Community Zone with a family fun fair, food and drink fayre, market stalls and activities. Visitors can enjoy gymnastics, dance and martial arts displays as well as performances from two community choirs. Organisers have been given commercial sponsorship from Logic Estates, Morecrofts Solicitors, Clements & Co Mortgage Advisers, Sugar & Lime Catering Supplies and Harmonics Music to help run the event. Adults can access the festival for £6 per day while children aged 15 and under can buy tickets at £2 per day. Concessions (seniors, students and unemployed) can head into the festival for £3 per day and children under four are free. For more information and full line up details visit www.waterloofestival.co.uk
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FRIENDS SAVED LIFE OF MAN WHO COLLAPSED ON A BOWLING GREEN They performed CPR on 70-year-old Howard after he suffered heart attack Report by Tom Martin A MAN who suffered a massive heart attack at a bowing green in Crosby has thanked his quickthinking friends after they performed CPR to save his life. Howard Taylor, 70, collapsed at the Brooke Hotel Bowling Club on Sunday, April 28 and stopped breathing. His friends then rushed to his aid and managed to restart his heart until paramedics arrived. Such was the seriousness of Howard’s condition that once at Aintree Hospital, he was placed in an induced coma for three days, and after being brought around, he suffered another heart attack. This time he was placed in a coma for seven days, but he has been through a miraculous recovery and on Wednesday, June 5 he was able to go back to the bowling club to thank his friends in person. Percy Smith, who was one of the bowlers who helped save his life, told the Champion: “This was Howard’s first time at the bowls competition and while he was waiting for his turn to go on, he had a massive heart attack and stopped breathing.
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Colin Parry, Andy Howie, Paul Reardon, Howard Taylor (wearing purple sweater) and Chris Willian after Howard paid them a visit following his recovery
“While I went to get a defibrillator, three of our young bowlers started CPR and after several minutes they got him breathing again before paramedics took over. “In the course of doing so, they broke his ribs and sternum, but the paramedics said this was a small
price to pay if it saved his life. He was taken to Aintree Hospital and put in an induced coma for three days, but after that he suffered another heart attack.” At this point, he was transferred to Broadgreen Continued inside
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