Former Mayor Suffering Major Heart Attack Thought He Had 'Bad Indigestion'

The kindness of strangers: I had a heart attack while mountain biking and someone saved my bicycle

I heard the ambulance siren getting closer. And then a voice: ‘Where do you live? We’ll take your bike home for you’Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesI was coming down a mountain bike trail when I became aware of an odd ache in the middle of my chest. At the time I was working as a specialist anaesthetist, and also had a history of working in intensive care medicine, so I immediately knew the significance of such a sensation. Which is…

Former mayor suffering major heart attack thought he had 'bad indigestion'

A former mayor of Colchester has spoken of how he spent an entire polling day campaigning across the city with a major heart attack.