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Nottingham Evening Post photographer, Trevor Bartlett, has been reunited with the surgeon who saved his life.

Back in 1984, Trevor collapsed in the paper's newsroom. He had just climbed down from a table after taking a photograph. The last thing he remembers of that day is a colleague picking him up and asking him where his car was.

An aneurysm in Trevor's brain had ruptured, and on arrival at hospital he had a heart attack. He later slipped into a coma.

Trevor had multiple intra-cranial aneurysms-swelling in a blood vessel deep inside hisbrain, one and then another of them had burst - which can often prove fatal.

Neurosurgeon John Firth carried out the delicate operation that saved Trevor's life.

He said: "At least one person in Nottingham will drop down dead from one of these every day. In stark terms, there’s a two in three chance of death. Usually there are no warning signs."

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