Newly-wed Brian Compton who tied the knot at home with his bride Angela Green because he was too ill to travel has lost his battle with cancer.

Carpenter Mr Compton, 59, died in the Martlets Hospice of liver cancer on Wednesday with his wife and family at his bedside.

Devoted couple Mr Compton and his wife Angela, a nurse, were married at their home in Redhill Drive, Westdene, Brighton, on Valentine's Day.

Mr Compton had been diagnosed with cancer just days earlier and became too ill to travel.

The couple had planned a wedding in Kent in July but Mr Compton was not expected to be well enough and they wanted to get married so they organised a home service within days.

Two registrars from the Brighton register office went to their home on Valentine's Day and sanctioned it for marriage before conducting a ceremony.

The Reverend Richard Adfield, the chaplain at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, conducted a blessing in the house before a gathering of the couple's family, friends and colleagues.

The couple met through the lonely hearts section of The Argus almost three years ago and Mrs Compton, who works at the eye hospital in Brighton, said it was love at first sight.

Father-of-three Mr Compton was a widower, his wife died of breast cancer ten years ago, and Angela was a widow, her husband died suddenly four years ago.

Just three days after the couple married at home, Mr Compton became too unwell to remain at home and went to the Martlets.

Mrs Compton said: "When I met Brian I agreed to meet him at a pub, but I went to the wrong one.

"When I found the right place he was stood standing on the steps and I don't know how, but I knew I would marry him and fell in love with him at first sight."

She added: "We were so in love. I put everything I had into him, he was my life and now he has gone."

A funeral service is being held at Woodvale Crematorium on Friday at noon, where the cortege will be led into the chapel with the music My Sweet Lord by the late Beatle George Harrison.

Angela and family members will give readings at the ceremony.

Angela will be wearing her wedding outfit and Brian will be cremated wearing his.