Children at Orton Longueville School have been busy raising more than £500 for the Nicholas Shoesmith Appeal.

The school, along with other generous people across the city, dug deep to raise £10,000 to pay for a three-week trip to a renowned feeding clinic in Austria.

The two-year-old recently underwent revolutionary treatment which has seen him overcome gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, which caused vomiting when he swallowed, preventing him from eating.

Instead he was fed every hour through a tube in his stomach.

The school was so touched by Nicholas’ plight that it carried on fund-raising in a bid to help pay for reconstructive surgery on his ear when he is older, as Nicholas,who underwent four major operations in the first 18 months of his life, also suffers from Goldenhar syndrome, a congenital birth defect which causes deformities on the face.

Nicholas’s mum, Audrey Campbell, from Yaxley, said: “It’s unbelievable that people still want to help and are still raising money.

“His nursery, Rise and Shine, in Netherton, also held a fete on Saturday and monies again are going towards Nicholas.”