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Grandad's 'Christmas cold' turned out to be aggressive cancer
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. Birmingham Mail is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 18 Oct 2026, 11:28 UTC. The headline in use is “Grandad's 'Christmas cold' turned out to be aggressive cancer”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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Ashley Grey, 59, started to feel unwell in December 2022 but dismissed it as a bad cold. Over Christmas week he developed a fever and was shaking, so his wife called 111 and he was sent to A&E — where tests showed he had acute myeloid leukaemia.
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Grandad's 'Christmas cold' turned out to be aggressive cancer
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