Charity makes Catrin’s

ASEVEN-YEAR-OLD diagnosed with leukaemia has been granted her wish to walk with dinosaurs. Little Catrin Kneale, from Ruthin, is fighting acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

After battling through six months of intense chemotherapy every 10 days at Alder Hay Hospital in Liverpool, countless hospital visits and time away from friends and family, the little girl was given a once-in-alifetime opportunity to do something she’d always wanted to do – be a palaeontologist for the day.

Children’s charity Make-A-Wish granted Catrin her dream day jampacked with fossil finding – and even managed to arrange for a dinosaur expert in America to send her a piece of fossil of a T-Rex dinosaur bone.

Dinosaur-mad Catrin loves learning about prehistoric creatures and digging for fossils in the garden at home, but all that was put on hold when she fell ill in June 2016.

Catrin’s parents Liz and Tom had noticed their bubbly and energetic daughter had begun to seem more tired and withdrawn.

They took her to Alder Hay Hospital in Liverpool – where blood tests revealed Catrin had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

While she was poorly, Catrin’s parents both stopped working for six months to be with her, while juggling caring for younger sister, Megan.

Catrin’s Wishgranter, Lucy, planned a day full of adventure for her and her family, and when Catrin’s wish day arrived last November, the