A poorly little boy got a trip of a lifetime to visit Father Christmas and the elves in Lapland.

Wandsworth Times:

Starlight Children’s Foundation grants wishes for children with serious and terminal illnesses and nine-year-old Macauley Rogers, from Battersea, got the very special trip.

He suffers from charge syndrome that causes problems with his eyes, heart, respiratory system, growth and hearing, and has had 17 operations and four open heart surgeries. Despite everything he has to deal with, including endless night feeds, physiotherapy and antibiotics, he rarely complains.

Macauley and his mother Kerry, father Darren and sisters Tylar-Morgan and Luca Bleu, spent three days in Lapland, where they got to ride on a husky-pulled sleigh, a snowmobile and meeting reindeers and Father Christmas.

Mrs Rogers said: "The trip has helped Macauley see there are lots of other very sick children and he is not alone and this is a comfort to him. It has meant that we can spend time together as a family doing some amazing things that we wouldn’t normally be able to do."