A WOMAN who married her cancer-stricken husband just weeks before he died paid a touching Valentine's tribute to him and said: "I will never forget you".

Paula Chapman was to place a red rose and a Valentine's card at the grave of her husband, Eric, this morning.

Eric died last September, just two months after marrying long-time sweetheart Paula, and was laid to rest at Pleasington Cemetery.

The couple had cancelled their original wedding, due to take place in April last year when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 because doctors said he might not live long enough. Against the odds, Eric, of Dickinson Close, Blackburn, fought back against the testicular cancer and doctors said he had a better chance of recovering, but the cancer spread to his brain.

The couple had two children, Jamie, 10, and Nathan, six.

Paula said: "We haven't come to terms with it and in some ways I do not think we ever will. But I will always keep his memory alive. I, and the children, will never forget him."