A WOMAN who collapsed with a sudden cardiac arrest at a Take That concert has completed a marathon walk just two years later.

Anne Helsby and her husband Will walked a 26-mile stretch of Cleveland Way to raise funds for Arrhythmia Alliance’s Hearts and Goals campaign to tackle sudden cardiac arrest.

Anne, 47 and from Harrogate, collapsed on the way back to her car after a concert at Manchester City’s stadium in 2011. Thanks to the quick intervention of bystanders she was saved and went on to make a remarkable recovery.

Will, a 47-year-old director of sales with Best Western Hotels, said: “It was fantastic to have Anne with me on this challenge after doing the last one without her.

“She has made a remarkable recovery, it’s quite unbelievable really and we all feel so lucky to have her with us.

“What happened to Anne was a bolt out of the blue for the whole family. Anne has always been very healthy and had never had any problems at all.

“None of us had ever even heard of sudden cardiac arrest. We were just totally shocked by the whole thing.”

Anne and Will have already raised more than £1,000 for the campaign, a high-profile effort to tackle sudden cardiac arrest which has former England footballer Fabrice Muamba as ambassador.

He suffered a sudden cardiac arrest on the football pitch in March 2012 and went on to make a remarkable recovery after having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator fitted in his chest - the same device which Anne had fitted following her cardiac arrest.