One tuesday morning during last august's heat wave, Neil Kenworthy, a 61-year-old director of quantity surveyor MDA, left his Croydon office to travel by train to Victoria station in central London. He was due to have lunch with one of his company's key clients. Kenworthy never made it to the restaurant. While the train was stopped at a signal, he suffered a fatal heart attack. An ambulance was summoned, but arrived too late to resuscitate him. A bystander tried to contact his next of kin by dialling the last number called on his mobile phone. One of Kenworthy's colleagues answered, and as he listened to the caller describing the grey-haired, bespectacled man who lay stricken on the floor of the train, the awful truth dawned. "It was a tragic way to hear the news," recalls Charles Johnston, the chairman of MDA. "But the attack was not surprising. Neil was an extremely dedicated professional man, and he basically worked far too hard, considering his lifestyle.
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