A father-of-two recovering from a brain tumour diagnosis has inspired his family to take part in a charity fundraiser.

Dean Cameron, from Watford, was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma in March last year after having a seizure at the dinner table during a family meal.

He was 45 years old and had been unwell for about a year but was misdiagnosed with a number of conditions including depression, vertigo and high blood pressure.

His wife Victoria said: "Dean had almost every symptom of a brain tumour. He said he felt like he was drunk and dizzy, he would wake up in the middle of the night holding his head with pain and his speech was slurred.

"The night it happened, we were just sitting down to have a curry and the next thing I knew he coughed and started having a seizure.

"Within minutes my whole world was turned upside down, and his. Then off he went in an ambulance and, because of Covid-19, I didn’t see him for two weeks."

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Mr Cameron, a former British Airways ramp agent, went on to have three operations and underwent six weeks of intensive radiotherapy. He is now in remission, and "probably happier than ever", according to his wife.

To mark the first year since her husband's diagnosis, Mrs Cameron is organising a Wear a Hat Day event on March 25 in Leavesden Country Park in aid of charity Brain Tumour Research.

Around 25 people will wear specially-designed hats to the fundraiser where they will have a cake stall and be joined by family and friends.

Among them will be their daughter Phoebe, whose form tutor at St Michael's Catholic High School has promised to donate £20 if she wears a hat throughout the school day.

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Mrs Cameron said: "We have some old hats, sombreros and things like that, and we’re upcycling them to make them whacky and silly.

"We’re also combining our designs with an Easter bonnet theme so there’ll be lots of Easter chicks on show."

Now in its 13th year, Wear A Hat Day has raised more than £2 million for Brain Tumour Research.

To support the Cameron's fundraiser, reference 'Victoria Cameron' when making a donation via www.braintumourresearch.org/donation.