A schoolboy who is fighting cancer for the second time has been told he is clear of cancer cells.

Laughlin 'Lockey' Whiteley, seven, has been in isolation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for six weeks but could be home in a fortnight.

His family found out on Thursday that his bone marrow was clear of cancer, four weeks after he underwent a stem cell transplant.

Laughlin, of Mildmay Road, Burnham, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia last November, having previously fought off a malignant brain tumour.

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