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Thousands raised in memory of 'loving' dad who died weeks after brain tumour diagnosis

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family and friends of a loving father-of-three who passed away from a brain tumour, just two months after being diagnosed, are raising money to help find a cure for the devastating illness.

When Lee Patterson began to feel unwell and slurring his words after the August bank holiday weekend last year, his partner Kathy just thought that he was suffering from a hangover.

The head teacher of a school in Wallsend, North Tyneside, was taken to hospitals where doctors misdiagnosed him with vertigo and sent him home, reports Chronicle Live.

After his condition failed to get better, Kathy and Lee's parents took him to A&E where a CT scan revealed he had a severe brain tumour the size of a fist called a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

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