IT'S the sort of super family story that could be a ready-made subject for a Hollywood movie. And if our exclusive front page story on Saturday didn't pluck at your heartstrings, you must be made of stone.

Teenager Lee Molyneux has agreed to become a bone marrow donor to save his five-year-old brother Tom, who is fighting two killer diseases, including a form of leukaemia.

Despite the transfusion operation's chances of success being just 75 per cent, brave little Tom is showing amazing courage and determination. Such plucky youngsters as these, and also schoolboy Nicholas Russell, who recently also agreed similar help for his ailing sister Charlotte, are reminders that British youngsters can be shining stars.

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