A YOUNG child's battle with cancer has inspired a council chairman to donate £1,000 to charity.
Cllr Nigel Taylor, who is more used to doing battle with councillors at Somerset County Council, was moved by the touching story of Emilia-Mae's successful fight against the disease.
He learned about the toddler's bravery at the age of just eighteen months during a chance chat with her dad, County Hall communications office Michael Wallis.
Cllr Taylor immediately pledged £1,000 from the Chairman's Charitable Fund to Musgrove Leukaemic Group, to benefit local children undergoing treatment for the disease.
Emilia-Mae, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2012 – a cancer that she was seventeen times more likely to develop than most children as she was born with Down Syndrome.