'Noah is such a little fighter. Nothing stops him'

Family's anguish as 10-year-old with Down's syndrome requires treatment at Great Ormond Street for leukaemia

- Thomas Cooper

SUPPORT has flooded in for a 10-year-old boy with Down's syndrome diagnosed with leukaemia.

Noah Stevenson, of Clayton, was told he had the disease in September. He has spent nine weeks receiving treatment in Birmingham Children’s Hospital, alongside his mum Claire Brereton. Now the mother-and-son will have to travel to London for specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Gran Jane Brereton said the family were ‘devastated’ when they learned Noah had leukaemia. Claire took Noah to hospital after spotting a rash that ‘rang alarm bells straight away!

Jane said: “She rang me at teatime. I asked her how everything was going. She said ‘It’s the worst mum, the worst it could ever be!