Upon farewelling the man who was her world for almost 50 years, it was Patti Newton’s cheeky grandson, Monty Welsh, who touched her broken heart in the sweetest way possible – and made her realise just how much she still had to live for.
“When Bert passed, little Monty said, ‘I don’t like you sleeping on your own, Nan, I’m going to come and sleep with you,’ and I kept feeling a little hand come across to hold my hand, and he would say, ‘you’re not lonely Nan?’” Patti, 77, tells New