A CHARD mum has hailed the medical teams who saved her daughter from a life-threatening brain tumour.

This time last year, nine-year-old Natalie Locke was bedridden in Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, unable to speak, walk or swallow food.

But now thanks to expert care at Frenchay and at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, she is nearing a full recovery.

Read her full story in this week's News.