Help Simon find a cure so others will be saved

The former Warwick School pupil and Southam landlord made the list - as in ‘kick the bucket’ - after he was diagnosed with the terminal illness last October.

The disease causes weakness and wasting of the muscles, eventually robbing people of their mobility and their ability to speak, swallow and breathe.

With perhaps months or years to live, Simon’s wishes ranged from spending a night in Paris to teaching his friends’ sons to fish and swimming with sharks, but last on the list was raising £1 million for the Motor Neurone Disease Association so sufferers could one day be told there was a cure.

Simon, 47, can no longer feed himself and has difficulty speaking. He may never be able to tick off some of the items on his list, but with more than £270,000 raise so far, is determined to reach his target.

Simon’s wife Maxine, who met him when he was landlord of the Bull pub in Southam, said: “We have been busy but it’s very upsetting knowing what’s coming. He’s getting weaker by the day, but he still has a good spirit.

“People are still wanting to do things to help, which is great.”

Mr Adams was until recently a headteacher at an excluded pupils’ unit in Plymouth. Former pupils are among fundraisers, and 1,000 people ran for him in the Plymouth half marathon.

There have been many fundraising events. Former rugby team mates collected sponsorship by cycling to Plymouth for its rugby festival and also helped him complete some of his goals, such as climbing the 200 steps to kiss the Blarney Stone.

Simon’s father David Adams, of Priors Marston, said: “I knew he was a popular lad, but didn’t realise how deep it ran.”

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