Watching Daisy walk up to Santa was priceless

Parents feared tot would never take her first steps

- MATTHEW BARBOUR

TWO-year-old Daisy Keough strode confidently up to Santa, a grin on her face as bright as a Christmas star.

It was a moment her proud parents feared they would never see when their little girl was born without a thigh bone in one leg.

Mum Claire, 36, said: "Looking at her after she was born, there just seemed no way anyone could fix her." Experts didn't even have a name for Daisy's super-rare condition or any idea how to help her.

But thanks to specialists at one of the world's leading orthopaedic hospitals, she could take those brave steps to see Santa and even helped decorate the Christmas tree.

Claire added: "Last Christmas, Daisy basically couldn't do anything on her own. She couldn't fetch her presents or help with decorations.

"But this Christmas, everything's changed. We took Daisy and her sisters to see Santa at Lapland UK, and to see her... it was priceless! "Santa gave her a big fluffy Husky which she now takes for walks everywhere, and she's helped put all the baubles on the tree.