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Tributes have been paid to a popular teacher who inspired hundreds of students during three decades. Tony Tears had been feeling unwell but he and his wife Sally had blamed it on a trapped nerve. “He got up and said I feel so much better. He had eaten and he took some painkillers and went to lie down,” explained Mrs Tears, who lives in Rockcliffe. “I came back in and I heard a bang and there he was.” The cause of death was an aortic aneurysm, which the NHS describes as a bulge or swelling in the aorta, the main blood vessel that runs from the heart down through the chest and tummy. He was 75 and had no other health complications, leaving his family in complete shock.