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George Lythgoe & Tim Hanlon

Family thought their dad 'wasn't right' on holiday and just three months later he died

A family have told how a dad was struggling to speak and sounded "drunk" during a video call so they encouraged him to go to a hospital where it was found he had an incurable brain tumour.

Keith Jackson, 54, from Rochdale, died just months after going to see doctors following the video chat with members of his family, reports the Manchester Evening News.

He was in Portugal building a home for him and his partner, for when they retired, when he had the video call where it became clear something was wrong.

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