A 12-year-old boy has cheered his grandfather up and helped him fulfill his lifelong dream to fly in a Spitfire for his 80th birthday by writing a heartfelt letter to an airfield.
Harrison Gurney wanted to lift his granddad Malcolm Hanson’s spirits after his wife of 57 years, Sandra, 76, had to go and live in a care home last summer due to Alzheimer’s disease.