The funeral of a Suffolk man gunned down in the massacre on a holiday beach in Tunisia is to be held next month.

Philip Heathcote, 52, was on holiday with his wife Allison celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary when they were caught up in the mass shooting in which 30 Britons were killed in June.

Mr Heathcote died in the shooting while his 48-year-old wife was left with five gunshot wounds, including injuries to her shoulder and stomach.

The couple, from Felixstowe, had been on a two-week holiday in Sousse, on the northeast coast of Tunisia.

Their son son, James, and his uncle Jonty Boon – Mrs Heathcote’s youngest brother – flew out to Tunisia in the days after the attack.

Mrs Heathcote was later airlifted to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where she was put in an induced coma, before continuing her rehabilitation closer to home after being transferred to Ipswich Hospital.

Mr Heathcote’s funeral will take place at Seven Hills Crematorium, Nacton, on Saturday, October 10 at 11am.

Originally from Manchester, Mr Heathcote, like his wife, was a well-known face in the Felixstowe cricket community – he joined Felixstowe Corinthians Cricket Club as a fast-medium bowler in the early 1990s and stopped playing around 10 years ago to start coaching youngsters. He worked for transport company Goldstar.