By Frances Hardy PUBLISHED: 17:51 EST, 4 June 2013 | UPDATED: 17:51 EST, 4 June 2013 Tragic: Mother-of-two Shirely Pooley died of pneumonia aged just 51 three days after this picture was taken on Christmas Day 2010 The photo shows a smiling Shirley Pooley, her face radiating health and happiness. Taken on Christmas Day 2010, there is no clue that less than three days later she would be dead from pneumonia, aged just 51. The fact that her untimely death left behind a loving husband, Gary, and their two teenage children, Megan, then 19, and Gareth, 14, is tragedy enough. The thought that she could still be alive today had she not been failed by a shambolic out-of-hours doctor service adds another layer of anger and regret to her grieving family’s terrible loss.
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Shirley Pooley died just two days after becoming sick on Boxing Day 2010
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Despite her husband's calls to 111, no help arrived until he dialled 999
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‘I got the impression Shirley had fallen completely off the radar,’ he says.
'She was our linchpin': @placeholder pictured in 2003 with Megan, then 11, and Gareth, then six.