DEAD IN BEDTragic bodybuilder Sam Standerwick, 25, died in his sleep just days before he was due to propose to his girlfriend

See What Killed The 25yr-old Bodybuilder, Sam Standerwick

In what will come across as a really tragic development, a bodybuilder has died in his sleep just days before proposing to his girlfriend.

A truly devastated father has told the story of how his ultra-healthy 25-year-old, Sam Standerwick, son died in his sleep just days before he was due to propose to his girlfriend.

According to The Sun UK, Sam Standerwick, from Llanddulas in Conwy, north Wales, returned to his hotel following a night out with pals in Liverpool when he fell asleep and didn’t wake up.

An inquest has now found that he died of heart failure – despite being a healthy young man – because of a 70% blockage in his coronary artery.

Dad Adrian Standerwick, speaking to Wales Online, said: “His heart just didn’t have enough power to keep going and just stopped beating in his sleep.

“We just couldn’t believe it. We had nine weeks to wait for the inquest and it was driving us crazy thinking ‘What is this?’

“Did someone inject him with drugs? Was it a brain aneurysm?

“He had gone to sleep and just never woken up.

“It’s heartbreaking. If I knew then what I know now Sam would still be here.”

An inquest heard that Sam, who worked with his dad, had been suffering from heart palpitations before his death, on December 17.

The loved-up couple were set to be engaged, further adding to the family heartbreak

Adrian said: “The night before he was suffering from heart palpitations, something he had been saying about for a little while every now and again.

“My wife said to him ‘You need to get checked over. I will book you an appointment at the doctor’s for tomorrow’.

“He said ‘I’m out with the lads in Liverpool tomorrow, I will do it next week’. He got ready to go out to Liverpool.

“He said ‘Love you mum, love you dad, see you tomorrow’ and went on his night out. The next day Kim, his girlfriend, phoned us asking if we had heard from him.”

The worried family called the hotel, and were told by the manager that police were at the premises because of a serious incident.

Cops later arrived at the family’s home to tell them that Sam had passed away.

The family then discovered that Sam was planning on proposing to his girlfriend, Kim Fisher, after finding an engagement ring in his possessions.

Since Sam’s tragic death, Kim has posted on social media saying that he is her “guardian angel” and that she misses him “more than words can describe”.

Adrian added: “It’s not something where you wake up one day and everything is rosy.

“I wake up and for a split second I forget. Then I realise I will never see my son again.

“It’s become a physical pain, as if someone is punching you really hard in the chest, and you feel that you have to do something or you’ll just curl up and die.

“Our family motto is: ‘We have been seriously knocked down but we’re not staying down. We are coming back at you.’”

The family have now set up the Sam Standerwick Memorial Fund, which has raised £20,000 and hopes to have 200 people screened in February next year for heart problems in north Wales.

Sam’s family, including mum Deb and children Simon, Matthew, and Amy, hope that by doing this they can prevent similar deaths.

Take no risks: The symptoms that can lead to heart failure

Heart failure symtoms can vary, however these are the main warning signs...

• Breathlessness
• Fatigue
• Swollen ankles and legs
• A persistent cough
• A bloated tummy
• Loss of appetite
• Weight gain or weight lossc
• Confusion
• Dizziness
• Fainting
• A fast heart rate

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Why a state in Nigeria "Ekiti" hasn’t developed after 21 years’

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• Ex-minister joins governorship race

A former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Bode Olowoporoku, has said “generational curse” made Ekiti State to remain undeveloped 21 years after its creation.

Olowoporoku, who represented Ekiti South as a member of the Fifth Senate between 2003 and 2007, condemned attempts not to acknowledge the role he played in the creation of the state.

Addressing reporters yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, the former minister declared his interest to contest next year’s governorship election on the platform of the Mega Party of Nigeria (MPN).

Olowoporoku said he joined MPN because “the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been strangulated by Governor Ayo Fayose while the All Progressives Congress (APC) is sailing on wide sea without any sense of direction”.

He said the Ekiti Parapo war hero, Fabunmi Okemesi, placed a curse on Ekiti land because the people he liberated from the Ibadan/Oyo oppression rewarded him with ingratitude when their monarchs and leaders allegedly instigated the colonialists to incarcerate him in Ibadan.

He said: “Ekiti has since been cursed into paying all their benefactors with ingratitude, hence the state is in agony today. This generational curse has been responsible for the backwardness of Ekiti land.

“Myself and those who led the struggle for the creation of Ekiti State have been plotted against since the state was created, paving the way for total invasion of the state by ‘strangers’ to become governors of Ekiti State.”

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Activists to occupy UK embassy for Kanu’s extradition

A group of activists under the aegis of Advocate of Social Justice for All (ASJA) has threatened to occupy the embassy of the United Kingdom (UK) if the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is not extradited to Nigeria.

In a statement yesterday by its Executive Director, Asongo Venatius, ASJA said it was disappointed to learn that Kanu was hiding in the UK, after illegally travelling through Cameroon and Malaysia.

According to Venatius, this implies that the UK is harbouring a fugitive from justice, notwithstanding his dual nationalism – Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

The statement said: “The proper thing is for the UK to have allowed Kanu answer the treason charges against him in Nigeria before making any intervention.”

“We find it supremely irresponsible for the UK High  Commission in Nigeria to have issued its statement seeking clarification on Nnamdi Kanu when it knows it was in cahoots with the terrorist leader.

“The irresponsible behaviour became diabolic when the UK issued him an emergency travel document in collaboration with crisis merchants. This is the worst form of double standard ever.

“We are at a loss to understand what the UK Mission in Nigeria or even the home country stands to gain by mischievously sinking so low to aid a terrorist and facilitate his sneaking out of the country.

“This is a disgrace to the government and people of the United Kingdom; it is a blot that can only be erased by the government of the UK flushing out Kanu and all other bad elements trying to sabotage Nigeria.

“If the UK truly believes in freedom, it must extradite Kanu, who is facing charges in a Nigerian court, so that those who stood surety to perfect his bail conditions do not end up in jail, if he fails to show up for his trial.

“Even where the UK has decided to spurn the ties that existed between it and Nigeria, we advise it to revisit the ill-advised choice of backing a terrorist against the Nigerian state.

“As the UK should have learnt from initially supporting ISIS terrorists, the attacks by these sick minds would eventually take place on its soil.

“The ASJA, therefore, demands that the UK High Commission in Nigeria immediately extradite Nnamdi Kanu to stand trial for his crime before his October 17 court appearance.

“Failure to do this will see ASJA leading Nigerians to occupy the UK High Commission’s premises in a manner it has never experienced before in any other part of the world.”

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German authorities defuse World War II era bomb in Berlin

Some 10,000 people were returning to their homes on Tuesday after they were evacuated so that a 250-kilogramme aerial bomb dating back to World War II could be defused and removed from a construction site in West Berlin.

The bomb was discovered near south-west Berlin’s Innsbruecker Platz square on Monday, prompting authorities to cordon off the area within a 500-metre radius and evacuate people in the surrounding residential buildings and patients in a home for the elderly.

The fire brigade and the police said in separate statements overnight to Tuesday that the bomb had been successfully defused and that 450 people were involved in the effort, which took several hours.

Underground and suburban rail traffic was disrupted, and officers went house to house to ensure that the area was cleared before disposal experts moved in.

More than 70 years after the end of the war, unexploded ordnance is regularly found buried in Germany, a legacy of the intense bombing campaigns by Allied forces against Nazi Germany.

At least 60,000 people were evacuated in central Frankfurt in September, the biggest operation of its kind in post-war Germany, after a 1.8-tonne British bomb nicknamed “Wohnblockknacker,” or blockbuster, was discovered.

In May, 50,000 residents were ordered out of their homes in the northern city of Hanover over several WWII-era bombs.

And on Christmas Day 2016, the discovery of an unexploded 1.8-tonne British bomb prompted the evacuation of 54,000 people in the southern city of Augsburg.

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