A brave nine-year-old boy who loves Leeds United was given a hero's welcome back to school by every pupil after his battle against blood cancer during lockdown. Little warrior Jude Hawkridge, from Rotherham, was diagnosed in February 2020 and has been receiving treatment at hospital ever since.

Jude has spent huge periods of his recent life on wards and away from his friends, with only a few weeks back at Thorpe Hesley Primary School last year before it was closed down again due to the Covid pandemic.

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