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Aaliyah Rugg & Ryan Merrifield

Grandad dies after thinking asthma was playing up weeks before daughter's wedding

A grandad who believed his asthma was playing up died from cancer just weeks before he was due to walk his daughter down the aisle.

Doug Ormsby - known as Dougie - was also days from turning 66 when he passed away from mesothelioma, possibly as a result of asbestos exposure, reports the Liverpool Echo.

The dad-of-three, from the Broadgreen suburb of Liverpool, was "really healthy" and cycled to work every day, according to his heartbroken wife Marie.

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