28 March 2025, 09:54 | Updated: 28 March 2025, 10:59

Prostate health awareness: Nick Ferrari takes a PSA test

By Nick Ferrari

News is a strange business.

One minute you're discussing the latest blistering incompetence displayed by some hapless Herbert of a politician who you wouldn't trust to fix your fences let alone your finances, the next you get a message from a long-standing friend.

This happened last week and the message read:" Grim news buddy. I knew you met him and liked him, Eddie Jordan has died overnight. Prostate cancer. He'd been ill for a bit."

During an ad break, a quick word with the producer: "Check with his agent or someone. We can only do this once all the family have been informed." And five minutes later LBC was the first news organisation in the UK to reveal the sad news.

By that time we had a "clip" (some audio) of him talking and that instantly likeable, supportive and affectionate voice was on the airwaves again.

As I repeated the news at the end of the clip, I suddenly realised. I'm closer to Eddie Jordan in age than I am to Ed Sheeran - and I'd let it go well over 18 months since my last prostate check.

It was time for action.

And as I signed up last year to be an Ambassador for........

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