Offers flood in for dying man’s wedding

BUSINESSES have offered cars, cakes, wedding dresses, flowers and jewellery to a young couple who have brought forward their wedding — as the groom has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Englishwoman Lynnette Coxall and her Spanish fiance Eric Shroder, who are both 30 and based in Cork, made contact a few years ago in an internet chat room and they “hit it off overnight”. Within three months, Lynnette had moved from England to Cork to move in with Eric.

Fiona Hagensen, who will be maid of honour at the couple’s wedding next week, said the pair had a blissful few years together until tragedy struck last December when Eric became sick. What he first assumed was a stomach bug turned out to be bowel cancer.