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West Lothian Courier & Niki Tennant & Jacob Farr

West Lothian couple go on bucket list trip as 'nausea and rash' was terminal cancer

Death was off the table as a topic for West Lothian couple Hayley and Matthew Smith following a devastating diagnosis that gave Matthew just one year to live.

At just 28, and only 16 months after he married his love Hayley, Matthew was handed the heartbreaking news in July 2016 that he had stage four glioblastoma - a quick growing and aggressive brain tumour.

The couple met when 17-year-old Hayley was working as a coffee girl in a café that was run by Matthew's mum. She had dropped hints for him to ask her out by sprinkling little chocolate love hearts on the foam of his cappuccinos.

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