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NHS to fund Ashya King's treatment in Czech Republic

The NHS is to pay for five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King's proton beam therapy treatment in the Czech Republic.

His parents Brett and Naghemeh King sparked an international police hunt after they took their son out of Southampton General Hospital and travelled to Prague for the treatment which was not available for him on the NHS.

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Prague Clinic: Ashya will be examined tomorrow

Five-year-old Ashya King will have his first consultation and examination tomorrow morning at the Proton Therapy Centre in Prague where he has been moved for specialist treatment.

Ashya, who has a brain tumour, arrived in the Czech capital today after travelling from a hospital in Malaga in Spain.

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