The Men’s Health Pit Stop program was demonstarted on Saturday at the Town Hall, when several men took the opportunity to get themselves checked out.

Primary Health Care Nurse, Tania Mills said men had, for a long time, been too busy to take time out for a health check.

Mark English, who read about the Men’s Health Day in the Times, said that men tended to hope symptoms would “go away.”

He is alive today because he reversed that way of thinking.

Shortness of breath led him to a GP and specialist. He had stents placed in his heart last Monday as a result, following the discovery of blocked arteries to his heart.

“I can’t stress enough to other men that they should get checked out..it doesn’t go away,” he said.

“I thought I was fit, with a good diet and weight..I was wrong.

“ I have now found a program for cardiac care from coming to the Men’s Health Day.”