These are the latest Liverpool ECHO headlines this morning.
Schoolgirl's devastating diagnosis after playground game goes wrong
A schoolgirl was told the devastating news she had cancer after breaking her leg in the playground.
Ava Davidson, aged eight, was playing on a balance board with her friend at Barlows Primary School in Fazakerley when she fell off and broke her thigh bone. Ava's mum Catherine Ainsworth initially believed the accident had caused Ava to break her leg.
However, doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital raised concerns about the severity of the injury and referred her for further tests.
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Catherine told the ECHO: "The doctors said they thought to sustain that injury, to that bone, she'd have to be hit by a car so they wanted to undertake more tests. Then they spoke to me and said they had their suspicions that she had bone cancer."
Ava was transferred from Alder Hey to The Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle where she was told she had a rare type of bone cancer called Ewing sarcoma. Doctors said the cancer had likely weakened Ava's bone and contributed to the severity of her injury.
Catherine, from Fazakerley, said: "I'm a nurse by background anyway, so I've probably taken it more in my stride than maybe the average person would." Read the full story here.
Schoolgirl screams 'I can't breathe' as she's kicked and choked in sickening attack
A teenage girl with a serious heart condition "could have been killed" when she was attacked by a gang of bullies in Liverpool city centre.
Evie Mutch, 15, was knocked to the ground, choked and kicked in the head by the group of girls outside St John's shopping centre at around 6.30pm on Friday, October 14.
Dozens of passers-by ignored the helpless Academy of St. Nicholas pupil as she was surrounded and attacked by the bullies, who also stole her mobile phone.
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Evie's mum Carol said: "It's just disgusting. Evie is traumatised, we all are. The fact that this kind of thing can happen to your children in the middle of the city in broad daylight.
"Evie has heart problems. If she'd been kicked in the chest, she could've been killed."
Evie, who lives with her family in Speke, suffers from pulmonary atresia, a life-threatening heart defect which prevents blood flowing to the lungs. She has undergone multiple heart surgeries, and is currently awaiting a further operation to replace an artificial valve as she grows. Read the full story here.
Pervert who filmed young children getting changed fails to stick to court order
A paedophile jailed for secretly filming young children getting changed at a leisure centre was hauled back to court for breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
Andrew Blundell, now 55, was jailed for 18 months in 2015 after admitting making recordings of young girls in the changing rooms of Pendle Wavelengths Leisure Centre in Nelson, Lancashire.
At the time of that case Burnley Crown Court heard Blundell was eventually caught after a young girl "saw a man with a hairy arm crouching down holding a camera" on the floor of her cubicle. When approached by lifeguards and pool staff, Blundell said: "I believe you are waiting for me?"
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Police later arrived and recovered a waterproof camera and a mobile phone from his rucksack. Officers also searched his then home in Bacup and found a computer tower with other images of children getting changed recorded at the swimming baths from January to June 2014.
The court heard that police also found unrelated downloaded indecent images of children including two of category A – showing the most serious forms of child abuse including rape – and three of category C.
Read the full story here.
