Back to school for Leominster's battler James
A courageous boy is returning to school today after beating cancer for the second time in his life.
Nine-year-old James Byard-Hunt is now leukaemia free almost 12 months after undergoing a stem cell transplant.
Just one year ago things were very different for the youngster.
He was receiving stem cells from a German donor, who was a 100 per cent match, at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Last week James, from Leominster, had his second bone marrow test since the transplant and has been given the all clear again. Today he was back at Luston Primary School.
Since the transplant he has put on weight, been on a family holiday in Cornwall and enjoyed his school holidays with his brother, Joshua. The youngster was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in October 2008, a condition so rare Birmingham Children's Hospital only deals with about three cases a year.
James' mum Caroline said: "Now he will be going up into a new class and he will be with his own friends in his proper year group and he can start to do more things that he should be doing at his age. He is doing really well."
