THE FAMILY of a pub landlady who died just 10 days after being told she had cancer are taking legal action.

Mum-of-two Beverley Hufton was so ill by the time medics discovered the tumour growing in her stomach, there was no time for treatment.

The 48-year-old – who ran pubs in Milnsbridge and Longwood – lost almost four stone during the eight months she was visiting doctors complaining of digestive problems.

Now, her family claim she was “fobbed-off” and was the victim of a catalogue of errors, which led to her untimely death on October 8 last year.

And they are planning a fundraising evening next month in her name to raise money for other cancer sufferers.

Her brother Collin Hufton, 54, said: “She kept going to doctors and getting sent away with tablets. She was just getting fobbed off.

“It wasn’t until she became bed-ridden we got the doctors to do something about it.