Three-year-old comes home from cancer treatment to find house transformed

A young girl from Birmingham had the surprise of her life when she returned home from cancer treatment to find her home had been given a £60,000 makeover.

Three-year-old Emily Cassidy had just gone through an operation in the states to remove a cancerous tumour from behind her eye.

She had already been through a course of chemotherapy in the UK and was granted funding on the NHS to travel to the USA for Proton Beam Therapy.

After responding well Emily and her mum Lucy returned home yesterday after nine weeks to find their home had undergone a DIY renovation.

Their home in Stechford had been completely transformed by her local community who had clubbed together to make it a safe and clean.

It was previously left in a poor state, with wires hanging from the ceilings and a new-build extension that had been deemed unsafe.

The interior has been thoroughly rewired and replumbed, the back garden landscaped and the front drive has been block paved.

The project was driven by the Help Harry Help Others campaign run by Georgie Moseley who lost her son Harry to cancer in 2011.

After Georgie visited earlier in this year, she was motivated to put an appeal online to ask others to help her carry out the task.

She received an overwhelming response from businesses across the region who pulled together to deliver a to meet the family's needs.