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Nicole Goodwin

Christmas light switch on in aid of four-year-old's wheelchair fund

There's a special mission behind the Christmas lights which cover a house in Dumpling Hall this year.

Each light has been fitted with the aim of raising money to buy a four-year-old boy an electric wheelchair after he was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The genetic condition makes his muscles weaker and causes problems with movement.

Freddie Tanner-Boyer was diagnosed with the condition at just one-year-old and at 16 months old he started treatment for SMA which has luckily stopped the progression of the disease. But the schoolboy still needs an electric wheelchair as he is unable to walk and currently has to be pushed around in a manual wheelchair.

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