Standing arm in arm outside the church where they had just tied the knot, Peter and Sharon Heath look every inch as if they had just celebrated the perfect wedding.
But behind Peter’s smart suit, Sharon’s elegant wedding dress and the bouquet of flowers she was clutching lay a day that had nearly ended in disaster.
The young loved-up couple had been standing at the altar in the middle of their ceremony when Peter’s already agitated father, Charlie, slid down the pew and collapsed.
It was June 26, 1976, and Britain was in the midst of a heatwave that brought 15 consecutive days of
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