Football match scores £3k for courageous Ruby

A FAMILY from Burton on Trent who organised a special charity football match have raised over £3,000 for Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity, leaving a legacy for their little girl, who passed away last year after a determined battle with Leukaemia.

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Dad and footie coach Dan Brown and his family put on the game at Ashby Ivanhoe FC, to raise vital funds for Birmingham Children's Hospital, where his 18-month-old daughter, Ruby, was cared for after receiving her devastating diagnosis.

After noticing Ruby wasn't her happy and bubbly self, Dan and Ruby's mum, Aaliyah, turned to their GP for answers but her symptoms were put down to teething and a positive Covid test. However, after Ruby began vomiting blood her parents took her to their local A&E, where a finger prick blood test, which immediately bruised her finger, triggered further tests which showed indicators for leukaemia - a type of blood cancer.