A ten-year-old boy battling leukaemia has called his best friend amazing after committing to running 100km before Christmas to raise money for the hospital he s being treated in.
Freddie Xavi, nine, from Lancashire has so far raised over £30,000 for Royal Manchester Children s Hospital where Hughie Higginson is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in September.
The schoolboy began running 2km a day to raise cash for the hospital in November, and has smashed his initial fundraising target of £1,000.
Appearing on This Morning today, Hughie hailed his best pal as amazing and said he couldn t thank him any more , while Freddie told how he wanted to support his friend who is currently undergoing chemotherapy.
welcome. great to have you here. great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal s. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, i imagine s security hey been stepped up quite a bit? reporter: that is true, and the mood on campus, really mixed in terms of how the students are feeling about everything that s been going on. you ve got a number of students who are quite frankly, have that same amount of anger that we saw out here on wednesday, but alina, also there have been a number of students who have come up to me who sai