A teenager is making progress after doctors believed that there was no hope for him and were just hours away from switching off his life support.
Brooklyn Peakman, aged 19, was left fighting for his life after he "died twice" during a 19-hour procedure to replace a faulty heart valve.
Brooklyn, from Prestatyn in Wales, was left on life support at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after the operation "didn't go to plan".
North Wales Live reports that Brooklyn was born with a faulty heart and had to undergo a major heart operation when he was just 12 hours old, and again when he was a day old.
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