The mother of a five-year-old girl, whose initial symptoms were tragically mistaken for common pains before a heartbreaking turn of events, has spoken of her disbelief after her daughter received a rare cancer diagnosis.
Madeleine Shipp, 28, a stay-at-home mother-of-three from Essex, described how the news "still does not feel real" after her daughter Aubrey, now six, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).