See moment disabled boy walks again after Mirror readers fund treatment denied by Tory NHS cuts

This is the moment brave Ben Baddeley walks again after his final life-changing operation - thanks to Mirror readers.

The 10-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer faced being stuck in a wheelchair when he was denied treatment by Tory NHS cuts.

But our kind readers raised 20,000 after we highlighted his case - and his family elected to pay for selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) treatment privately.

Footy-mad Ben - filmed taking his first tentative steps in hospital - has just had his second and final op and proud mum Amy could not be happier.

Appeal: Cerebral palsy sufferer Ben Baddeley was denied a life-changing operation on the NHS

She told how the delicate surgery had transformed her sons ability to walk.

The 29-year-old said: We walked him up and down the hospital corridor with him holding my hands, just getting him used to his new legs.

His right leg is almost perfect, the left one needs some more work but is improving all the time and he just wants to be up and about after the operation.

You just would not believe how different he is.

He is loving it, he wants to be moving now.

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See moment disabled boy walks again after Mirror readers fund treatment denied by Tory NHS cuts