CPR saved my life

A Whitley Bay dad who survived after suffering from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome has been reunited with the people who saved his life. Colin Flannery, aged 57, was at home with his wife Gail on 26 November when out of nowhere he suffered a cardiac arrest. Gail said: “I was sitting on one sofa and Colin was on the other with his iPad on his knee. Just out of the corner of my eye I saw the iPad fall to the floor, I looked over and he was slumped over. “There was no warning whatsoever, we had just ...