Schoolboy Troy Probert is free to chase his dreams after doctors used bionic implants to restore his hearing.

The eight-year-old from Westbury-on-Severn had heard next to nothing for most of his life after he fractured his skull as a toddler and later suffered five bouts of meningitis.

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