‘Fit and healthy’ pub owner dies just weeks after doctors dismissed fatal leg cancer as a ‘strain’

STEVE Tostdevine was the “fittest 77-year-old you could meet” but within weeks of discovering a small lump on his thigh, he was gone.

His rapid decline left his widow, June, reeling from the shocking loss and heartbroken his cancer hadn’t been spotted sooner.

“If Steve had been diagnosed earlier, then maybe he would have had a chance,” June, who is 62, said.