Cannabis oil fight of boy, 6
Record round-Britain swimmer sets foot on land for the first time since June 1st
A BOY is being denied medical cannabis as he has the wrong type of epilepsy.
Cole Thomson, six, has 10 seizures a night, which are paralysing him and hit his memory and speech.
Mum Lisa Quarrell, 37, believes cannabis oil could help halt the damage.
Rules changed last week to allow prescription in two types of epilepsy – but not Cole’s cortical dysplasia.
Lisa, of East Kilbride, South Lanarks, said: “I am working against the clock to save my beautiful son.” Number of swimmers who joined Ross for the last mile of his epic feat The number of days it took Ross to swim 1,791 miles around Britain EXTREME sportsman Ross Edgley emerges from the water for the first time in 157 days after becoming the first person to swim around Great Britain.
Ross was joined for the final mile of his 1,791-mile journey by 300 other swimmers, 57 of whom had swum the English Channel.
He did his last few strokes of front crawl before coming ashore where he had begun – in Margate, Kent.
He said: “I had to put my goggles on. I was getting really emotional.
“I thought I was going to fall over. And then I started running – that was a mistake. I was really wobbly.
“It feels a bit weird. Feels a bit too solid for my liking.”
Ross left Margate on June 1 and then circumnavigated Britain by front crawl, travelling clockwise.
He had expected it to take 100 days and told his family “Sorry I’m late” as they greeted him alongside hundreds of others on the beach.
During his epic feat, Ross’s tongue started to disintegrate due to the exposure to salt water and he was also stung in the face by a jellyfish.
The 33-year-old, from Grantham, Lincs, swam for up to 12 hours a day – and sometimes through the night.
Ross battled strong tides and currents in cold water, storms, shoulder pain, wetsuit chafing and swimming into winter. ■ Ross swam an average of 11.4miles a day for 157 days.
■ He left the water only to eat and sleep on board his support catamaran.
■ He ate an incredible diet of up to 15,000 calories a day.
■ As well as pizza, pasta and rice pud, he got through 610 bananas and 314 cans of Red Bull during his epic swim.
He was accompanied by Cornish sailor Matthew Knight, supporting him from his catamaran, Hecate.
The odyssey has been compared with that of Captain Matthew Webb, who in 1875 became the first person to swim across the English Channel. But while more than 1,900 swimmers have since made that crossing, few are likely to follow in Ross’s wake.
And he was thrilled by his reception early yesterday morning.
He said: “That was unbelievable. You won’t find many other sports where people will come out in November, at five o’clock in the morning, just to swim out for a mile.
“That represented what I love about open-water swimming.
“Because I’ve had my face in the water for so long now I didn’t know – I thought it was just going to be my mum and my dad with a pizza.”
Ross entered the Guinness Book of World Records on August 14, on day 74, for the longest staged sea swim. It is his latest record-breaking feat. In 2016, he did a rope climb equivalent to the height of Mount Everest in 19 hours – two months after doing a marathon pulling a car. And his mantra on challenges? “Be naive enough to start and stubborn enough to finish.” Arriving in Margate to a hero’s welcome Ross did last mile with 300 other swimmers