A man who suffered a blood clot in Aberdeenshire while out biking with his friends was rescued by air ambulance crews when he was helicoptered to life-saving surgery.

Adam left his house for a fun day out on his motorbike with pals at Craiglash Quarry, but events soon left him in urgent need of air ambulance support. The 52-year-old offshore ROV pilot was attending a motorbike enduro training day, when he began struggling to breathe and shaking uncontrollably.

"What I was doing shouldn’t have been making me feel the way it was," Adam explains. "I had suffered a cardiac arrest the previous year, and my life was saved. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but the stent that was fitted either wasn’t fully inflated or there was a small gap between the stent and the artery wall that had caus

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