A man described as 'amazing' by his wife has died at the age of just 37 after what was initially believed to be a 'sinus infection' headache tragically turned out to be a symptom of a brain tumour.
Paul James spent 19 years with wife Karen after the pair met at Aberystwyth University. They had decided to go travelling after learning that the prospect of having children wasn't possible - and it was just before a trip to Venice in 2018 when he first experienced something untoward.
Karen, a biomedical scientist, told the Liverpool Echo: "The only sign was headaches, so we were back and forth to the doctors. He was fine - not fine, he had headaches, but he was still in work. We went to Venice and he still had the headaches and then, yeah, it all went downhill when we came back."