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By Steven Brown & Paul Donald A shop worker who couldn’t get rid of a cough after six weeks was told by his GP to urgently get himself along to A&E for an X-ray. Mike Inglis said that one night at work he was feeling extremely tired and had really sore ribs, so went to his doctor the next day and ended up having a two-night stay in hospital. The medics at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh found he had scarring on his right lung and pneumonia. And now the retail supervisor, 48, from Prestonpans in East Lothian, is warning others to get checked up right away if they have a persistent cough. Mike …

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