Rather than baking a cake and holding a party for their daughter Amelia’s seventh birthday, Michelle and Richard Eldred spent the day at her bedside in Birmingham Children’s Hospital, anxiously waiting for the results of a biopsy which would tell them if the tumour in her thigh was cancer.
Amelia, an only child, was active, sporty, dance-mad and so healthy her parents barely remember her having a cough or a cold.
So when her mild symptoms of a few weeks