A teenager was given a devastating diagnosis following a call to his parents from his worried headteacher.
Connor Ellerton had previously suffered with a number of ear infections, the Liverpool Echo reports. But GPs didn't think the problem was anything serious and prescribed him with antibiotics.
The 14-year-old, from Birkdale in Merseyside, carried on as normal but in 2019, when he was training with his school rugby team, the school's headteacher rang his mum Joanne to say something was not right.
