A grandad had a huge growth on his nose cut off privately because he was afraid his granddaughter wouldn’t want him in her 18th birthday photos.
Thomas Stevenson, 69, a retired driver who used to work at the petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, began developing rhinophyma five years ago.
The disfiguring condition kept getting worse and he asked the NHS to get it removed but he got so fed up waiting for a procedure that he went private.
