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The family of a little boy fighting for his life are hoping a haul of Christmas cards and gifts will lift his spirits over the festive season.

Brave Blue Tobin will spend the holiday season in hospital while he receives chemotherapy and awaits a bone marrow transplant.

In a bid to put a smile back on the two-and-a-half-year-old’s face a campaign for messages of support and festive cheer has begun.

So far an array of famous faces including Mickey Mouse and Sir Alex Ferguson, have sent letters and presents, and 500 children from Blean Primary School have posted him a card.

In fact Blue, who attends Choos Choos Day Nursery in Canterbury and lives in Kennington, Ashford , has been sent so much stuff a special collection box been set up in the post room at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey, where he is being treated.

Blue was first taken ill with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia in March, and put in remission in August. However doctors delivered the heartbreaking news that the disease had returned in October after bruises appeared on his body.

His mum Francesca Waite, 42, works in Marks and Spencer in Canterbury, but has spent every waking moment by her son’s bedside.

Thelma Vaughan-Cubitt, his grandmother, who lives in Howfield Lane in Chartham Hatch, also visits when ever she can, and hopes to be able to help make Christmas as special as possible for the youngster.

She said: “It is a very hard time but we are being positive and doing all we can to make Blue’s Christmas a good one.

“He is a fighter but the cards he has received have given him an extra boost.
“We can’t believe all the support and care that has been shown to us all, it is very touching.

“It started by us writing to all the football teams in the premier league and we were over the moon to have got replies back.

“This is a situation that no family wants to find themselves in. Blue is our life, but we are looking to his future and we are hopeful.

“We were told it was a miracle when he was put in remission and our world fell apart again when doctors told us he was ill again.

“We want to get as many people to send Christmas cards as possible to cheer him up and let him know that everyone is thinking of him and wishing him well.”

To send Blue a Christmas card post it to Downs Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PT.