A TEENAGER who has had 12 operations on her legs to enable her to walk unaided and is "never without a smile" has been nominated for a Derby Telegraph Community Champions award. Olivia Harrison has been put forward for the award by her school, Kirk Hallam Community Academy. The 14-year-old, a former pupil at Kensington Junior School, Ilkeston, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was six months old and doctors told her parents, Carole and Carl, that she might never walk or...
Reported by Derby Telegraph 21 hours ago.
A TEENAGER who has had 12 operations on her legs to enable her to walk unaided and is "never without a smile" has been nominated for a Derby Telegraph Community Champions award. Olivia Harrison has been put forward for the award by her school, Kirk Hallam Community Academy. The 14-year-old, a former pupil at Kensington Junior School, Ilkeston, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was six months old and doctors told her parents, Carole and Carl, that she might never walk or...
Reported by Derby Telegraph 21 hours ago.