THE wife of a "fun-loving family" from St Martins has paid tribute to her husband following the inquest into his death.

Nicholas Roberts, 46 and from Ifton Heath in St Martins, died in March this year at the home he shared with his partner of 20 years, Georgie Roberts, and their two children.

Georgie said her husband, a former construction manager and landlord at the Tankard in Festival Square, Oswestry, was loved by all who knew him and said he was a "funny, lovely old-school family man".

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“He was very much a loving father – kind and thoughtful and would do anything for anybody,” she said.

“He was funny too – he had a great sense of humour – so funny – and he was so cheeky with it too.

“He was cheeky – he was so lovable and everyone loved him, anyone who had ever met him.

“Nick could get away with anything because of that cheeky sense of humour.

“He was loved by everybody that he met and he was very popular.”

Georgie said that Nick had suffered from ill-health which led to unprompted but still enjoyable change of career.

She added: “Nick was a construction manager all across the West Midlands but he had a stroke that changed his life.

“He was made redundant from that job – a job that he loved.

“But then he started running the pub and he loved that, working with his mother-in-law.

“Because of the redundancy and because he had so many hospital appointments, it gave him that flexibility.

“He was frightened at first but he was the best landlord though at first he said he would do behind the scenes.

“But on his first night, he was out on deck, as such, with the customers.

“That was his character – he loved people as much as they loved him, and he loved having the best times and being cheeky.

“He would stand on the doorstep and shout people in. If they were eating a burger he would say ‘come in and eat here with a pint’.

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“Nick loved his music – he loved rock and roll and he was old school, and he was a traditional family man.

“He adored his family.”

Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin coroner John Ellery, at the hearing held at Shirehall in Shrewsbury, gave a conclusion of death by misadventure.