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Gateshead woman Jo Milne - who heard sound for the first time after pioneering ear surgery - is heading to one of the world’s best-known music festivals.

Jo revealed during a radio interview on Monday that her wish is to hear live music at a summer music festival - and almost immediately her wish was granted.

The act of kindness saw Jo - who was fitted with cochlear implants a year ago allowing her to hear for the time - brought close to tears as she said the chance to go to Glastonbury was “a dream come true”.

Live on air during her afternoon chat on BBC Radio 5’s Afternoon Edition, one of the Glastonbury Festival organisers contacted the show to promise her tickets.

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The experience promises another milestone moment for Jo, from Low Fell, who found herself in the global spotlight when the video of the emotional moment she had her implant switched-on went viral.

Previously she had been acutely deaf and suddenly she was plunged into a world of sound as she realised the surgery had worked and was overcome with emotion.

Jo is now an ambassador for the charity The Hearing Fund UK and has just written a memoir called Breaking the Silence, telling of how the new hearing world has been opened up for her.

But the now-40-year-old still faces a battle to save her sight as she suffers from a rare condition called Usher Syndrome.