Football fans heading down to Wembley Stadium to watch the FA Cup final are set to face travel chaos as yet more rail strikes are due to hit this weekend.
16.05.2023 - 06:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A grieving family have paid touching tribute to a much-loved son and brother who collapsed suddenly at home and later died in hospital.
Avid Manchester United fan Michael Naylor, 31, had a heart attack before a 'catastrophic bleed to the brain' was discovered after a scan in hospital.
His father, Kenneth Naylor, told an inquest into his death how Michael, who had epilepsy but no underlying heart condition, had breakfast as usual on the morning of December 16 last year then walked up the stairs, saying he was going to go out 'into town'.
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But Mr Naylor said he heard a 'bang' from upstairs before he found Michael, a chef by trade from Haughton Green in Denton, Tameside, collapsed behind his bedroom door. His father and Michael's sister, Charlotte, carried out CPR before he was rushed to Tameside General Hospital by paramedics, a coroner was told.
The inquest on Monday at Stockport Coroners Court was told he was given a 'clot-busting agent' before a CT scan showed what was described by medics who gave evidence as a 'massive haemorrhage' and a 'non-survivable bleed to the brain'.
Sadly, Michael continued to deteriorate and he died on December 17.
Michael, the inquest heard, was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2014 and despite being on medication, suffered frequent seizures. But Coroner Alison Mutch recorded a narrative verdict based on the medical evidence presented and said Michael's epilepsy and his compliance with his epilepsy medication played no part in his death.
A neurologist said Michael wasn't known to have any sort of heart condition and without the clot-busting drugs he was given, he would have died.
She said he suffered a 'catastrophic bleed to
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