Family noticed their dad 'wasn't right' on Portugal holiday - three months later he died

A family have spoken of their heartbreak after a beloved father from Rochdale died just months after they noticed something was wrong while he was on holiday in Portugal.

Keith Jackson, 54, was in Portugal building a home for him and his partner for when they retired. However, his family noticed he was having problems speaking when they video-called him.

He went to doctors in the country, who diagnosed him with a type of brain cancer - a glioblastoma (GBM) - and urged him to return home. Tragically, however, after returning to Greater Manchester a scan at Salford Royal Hospital revealed he had a lesion on his brain.

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Delayed radiotherapy treatment due to an infection proved too gruelling and Keith made the decision to cease all treatment. He died in February 2020 - just three months after being diagnosed in Portugal.

Now, his daughter Lianne is preparing to run three marathons back-to-back to raise money to find a cure for the disease. You can donate here.

Speaking of the moment she realised something was initially wrong with her father, the 26-year-old said: “Our family live across the country so we regularly video called and on one call, it was as if Dad was drunk.

“When he spoke, it sounded like nonsense, and he would often start a new sentence without finishing the last one. He’d also make stuff up which we knew hadn’t happened as if he was overexcited.

“I had missed calls from my brother, Luke, when we finally spoke on the phone, he told me that Dad was in hospital with a brain tumour. This was the first I had heard of Dad going to hospital, let alone having a tumour.

"I had so many questions I didn’t know what to do with