At ten months old her mum was given the news no parent should have to hear - but it wasn't the end

A nine-year-old girl who was diagnosed with a deadly illness aged just ten months had to battle through gruelling treatment - but now she is healthy.

Sam Price, 60, kept a daily journal detailing his granddaughter Sorrelle Turnbull's journey through leukaemia and day-to-day experiences on the wards of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. It began as a way of keeping the family up to date with her progress and also served as a recording and reference tool.

But Sam says the diary ended up morphing into 67,000 words - and now represents a comprehensive account of the realities of a child's path through cancer in all its highs and lows. He's now transformed it into a book - titled 'Small Boat in a Big Ocean' - and hopes to secure a publisher.

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Sorrelle, from Walshaw, Bury, was 10 months old when she was diagnosed with Infant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. She had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at the hospital. The youngster also developed a virus in March, 2016, and underwent pioneering antibiotic therapy.

But in the April of that year, the family were given the news they'd been desperate to hear - the transplant had been a success and Sorrelle was cancer free.

She's now happy and healthy and a pupil at Old Hall Primary School in Bury, as well as a big sister. She loves swimming, gymnastics - and her grandad.

Sam, also from Walshaw said: "During the span of her three-year treatment, I kept a journal that was really to help keep the family up to date about her treatment. Sorrelle was that young, bless her, that she didn't realise what was going on.

"Over the years it has become more than 67,000 words and I recently decided to turn