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Nick Forbes

Scottish schoolgirl among child cancer survivors who inspired poem about courage

Fearne Stewart, five, is one of five child cancer survivors who inspired a new poem called Courage Looks Like Me (Steve Welsh/PA) -

A Scottish schoolgirl in remission from leukaemia is one of five youngsters chosen as the inspiration for a poem about courage by former children’s laureate Joseph Coelho.

Five-year-old Fearne Stewart, from Blantyre in South Lanarkshire, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia – a cancer of the white blood cells – in April 2023 when she was just four years old.

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