LITTLE BOY BATTLING CANCER GETS A BOOST FROM HIS HERO

BRAVE Ben Williams was given a huge boost in his battle against a brain tumour yesterday, after Harry Kane promised him he would ‘do everything’ to win today.

Five-year-old Ben completed his six weeks of radiotherapy on Thursday at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

He lost the power to walk and talk before his treatment. But Ben’s father Sam revealed his first words since his illness were ‘England’ and ‘Harry Kane’.

Hospital staff had thrown him a celebration to mark the end of his treatment in which he wore an England shirt and held a replica World Cup trophy in front of a CT scanner.

Then paediatric radiographer Liam Herbert tweeted a video of the party to Kane. The Three Lions skipper replied a day later, calling Ben an ‘ inspiration’ and urging him to ‘carry on fighting’.

Mr Williams said: ‘Six weeks ago, Ben couldn’t talk or walk but we’ve essentially seen our little boy come back to us in the last few weeks. We got him an England kit a few weeks ago and he’s pretty much refused to take it off since.

‘We’ve resorted to washing it while he’s in bed. He really liked football before he got ill and has gone England crazy in the last couple of weeks. “England” and “Harry Kane” are some of the first words he learned to say again as his speech came back. What the staff in the radiology department did for him on his last day of treatment was just so special.’