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The family of tragic bride-to-be who loste her battle with cancer on the day before her wedding has revealed the “small details” they want to remember.

Anna Swabey, 25, from County Durham passed away on September 16 after an 18-month-long fight with a rare and aggressive brain tumour.

The inspirational blogger died just a day before she was due to wed partner Andy Bell in the Yorkshire Dales.

Her heartbroken family has posted on her blog, which she started after she was diagnosed in 2015, detailing the final days they spent with her.

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Her sister writes: “I wanted to update Anna’s blog following her death on Friday 16th September 2016 (eleven whole days ago) to continue her journey mostly, but also for us as a family to be able to look back at this and remember the small details that we are likely to forget amongst the blur that has been our lives for the past few weeks.

“There was a thunder storm on the morning that Anna died.

“It continued for hours. We were waiting to see who was going to be the first to say she went out with a bang!

“I still can’t remember which one of us was the first to make the joke (had Anna been there it would’ve been her without a shadow of a doubt) but we said it anyway, as she knew we would.

“Andy and Anna were due to marry the day after Anna passed away.

“We knew a couple of weeks before that Anna wouldn’t be well enough for their wedding to go ahead, and we had to make the very tough decision to cancel the wedding plans.

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“However we all made a promise to Anna some time ago that if the wedding didn’t go ahead, we would all go and spend the weekend in Richmond regardless.

“It was such a difficult weekend, but a lovely one also. We spent time together in the glorious sunshine, had a family meal and sat round the fire sharing memories.

“My youngest son Theo pointed at the brightest star and said that it was Anna shining down on us. We all like to think it was.”

Anna was diagnosed with the tumour in January 2015 after a seizure in her bathroom before a night out, reports the Chronicle.

She was initially given three years to live and decided to start her hugely popular blog, Inside My Head, in February 2015 to help her manage her feelings and help others through their diagnosis.

Anna also committed to massive fundraising efforts after her diagnosis and made it an item on her bucket list to raise £100,000 for Brain Tumour Research.

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Anna, from Newton Aycliffe, poignantly wrote on her first blog: “I want to defy my prognosis. I WILL live till I am old, I WILL get married, I WILL have children and I WILL have the life I have always dreamt of.”

She recently surpassed that total for the charity.

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Her sister Victoria Cartwright, 36, said on the day of Anna’s funeral: “We are trying to get through each day as best we can. We knew that Anna was terminally ill of course but we always hoped against hope we would have more time together.

"Anna had been through so much. She was one of a kind and we will cherish the memory of every minute we had together for the rest of our lives.”

Anyone wishing to donate to Anna’s cause can do so at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/InsideMyHead