Free DVDs to help get you moving at home

LISKEARD Breathers' Group has launched a new DVD to help those with long-term conditions exercise at home.

Chairman Joe Barr said the initiative was by patients, for patients, and included exercises which could even be performed by people sitting in a chair at home.

"We're launching 1,000 free DVDs through respiratory nurses, health centres and hospitals," he said.

South East Cornwall's MP Sheryll Murray joined the group at the launch and promised to send a copy to David Cameron.

The group visits schools and tells young people of the effects of smoking, using themselves as examples. Mr Barr uses a breathing machine at night.

The DVD has been funded through Cornwall Community Foundation – Active 60.

Mrs Murray said: "Having worked many years in a doctor's surgery I have seen the damage cigarettes can do.

"I know from personal experience the problems associated with giving up this very addictive drug and I wish the group the very best in their efforts to persuade youngsters never to start in the first place."

The organisation has branches in Torpoint, Pensilva, Looe and Liskeard, and hopes to set one up in Saltash soon.