An "amazing" man died soon after his birthday when a headache like a "sinus infection" turned out to be a brain tumour.
Karen James, 40, met her husband Paul in student halls at Aberystwyth University, where she studied biology and he was training to be an accountant. Karen, originally from Bootle, said: "He was on the ground floor, I was on the second floor. It was university, so you make friends and then it was around November or December in first year we actually got together, and then we were together for 19 years.
"He was an amazing man. He was funny and very, very clever, so he could turn his hand to anything. He was an accountant - just before he got unwell, he'd passed his chartered exams. He was doing really well career-wise, and on the other hand, he was fantastic at DIY. He tiled our bathroom, he put in underfloor heating. He had so many good friends, he was a lot of people's best friend."
