Child scoliosis patient Aleisha given radical surgery

A six-year-old girl with scoliosis has been given a "new lease of life" thanks to a ground-breaking surgical technique, her family says.

Without surgery to correct curvature of her spine, Aleisha Darban, from Lincolnshire, would have faced a number of difficulties growing up.

She was one of a handful of children chosen to take part in a medical trial which uses plastic cable ties and metal rods to help straighten their spines.

Dr Lee Breakwell is using the method - said to help reduce pain - to help correct scoliosis in his patients at Sheffield Children's Hospital.