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£90,000 to make the one-day trip from East Midlands Airport happen for the 54 families on board.

They bring a team of doctors and paramedics to make sure each child’s complex medical needs are cared for.

And every kid here has an inspiring story of battling against the odds to tell.

Such as Charles Ross, 16, from Melton Mowbray, Leics, whose nasopharyn­geal carcinoma cancer is so rare the chances of getting it are one in a million. He says: “I got a lump on my throat one day which meant we caught it early. Who else can say they’re one in a million?”

Also on the trip is little Zara Elliot, aged four, from Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbri­ghtshire. A freak accident aged eight months where she fell and knocked her head at the swimming pool saw the tiny Scot end on, fou ins in she O tra the the cha app Jer

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