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Chloe Shakesby & Laura Sharman

Dad shares heartbreak as daughter, 8, diagnosed with terminal dementia-like disease

A dad has shared the heartbreaking story of his eight-year-old daughter's terminal diagnosis and how her little brother is doing everything he can to support her.

Gas engineer Darren Sykes, 42, first noticed that his daughter Isla was falling behind others her age when she was four years old.

The gas engineer, from Linthwaite, West Yorkshire, was concerned that she was struggling with talking and toilet training and took her to the doctor with wife Nic.

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