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Imogen McGuckin & Matt Gibson

Girl, 13, thought she had pins and needles – hours later she was paralysed

A 13-year-old girl who felt pins and needles while lying in bed has been left paralysed after suffering a "freak accident".

Nancy Jubb felt a "burning sensation" in her legs as she lay in bed, which doctors found was caused by a loss of blood supply to vital nerves that has left her lower body paralysed.

Medics found the teen had suffered an unexplained spinal stroke after at first thinking she was suffering from inflammation of the spinal cord.

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