Blair has heart checks

Published October 20, 2003

LONDON, Oct 19: British Prime Minister Tony Blair was admitted to a London hospital on Sunday for heart checks after he complained of feeling ill, his office said.

But a Downing Street spokesman said Blair was released after the tests, which were carried out after he complained of heart palpitations, and he was now feeling fine.

Blair, 50, is a keep-fit enthusiast, regularly running on a treadmill.

The youngest prime minister since 1812, Blair has this year endured the toughest test of his six-year rule dealing with the Iraq war and his subsequent role in the naming of a weapons expert whose suicide battered the government’s popularity.—Reuters

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