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Niamh Kirk & Zahna Eklund

Schoolgirl, 8, donates 500 Easter eggs to children's hospital in memory of brother

A loving schoolgirl has collected over 500 Easter eggs that she plans to donate to the Neo-natal unit and the Children's ward at Gloucester Royal Hospital and the James Hopkins Trust in memory of her baby brother.

Ellie Spackman, aged eight, visits the hospital and local charity every year with her parents Charlene and Ashley Spackman, both 34, and always donates chocolate eggs to children in need as a way to "give back" to the people who supported her family when her little brother Arthur was hospitalised.

Arthur passed away in 2019 at the age of two after being diagnosed with a very rare genetic terminal condition called Non-Ketotic Hyperglycinemia [NKH] when he was 10 days old.

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