A Bridgwater father of three is preparing for an epic, eighteen-hundred mile race across the Sahara Desert - less than a year after suffering a heart attack.

43 year old Andy Gale was rushed to Weston General Hospital last April, after which their Cardiac Rehabilition Team looked after him for 3 months.

This Sunday Andy returns to the Tuareg Rally - and told us he wants to raise a thousand pounds for a new defibrilator at the unit which saved him:

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