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Teesside's own little princess met her counterparts from the Disney film Frozen at her magical fifth birthday party.

For the past six weeks, little Ruby Hodgson and her family have been travelling up and down to Newcastle's Freeman Hospital each weekday for her daily dose of radiotherapy.

Her 30 treatments, which ended yesterday, were needed after a brain stem tumour returned for a third time - despite proton therapy treatment in the USA.

But even though her birthday fell during her current treatment, Ruby wasn’t going to pass up the chance to meet - and sing with - the Disney characters she adores.

And during the heartwarming party at Stockton’s Fun Shack, Ruby was even gently coaxed into a spot of Frozen karaoke.

“She loved it," said dad Wayne. "She has hyper all day, knowing that the princesses were coming to her party.

“She loved singing along with the songs.

"And when she sang Let It Go with them, and they passed her the microphone, it was a lovely moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.”

Coincidentally, it wasn’t the first time Ruby had met the Frozen duo.

Even though they had been booked for the party some time ago, by chance they popped in to the RVI recently to see the children - and no guesses which youngster was most thrilled to see them!

Wayne said the treatment on Ruby’s fingernail-sized tumour seems to have gone as planned.

He added: “She’s been a bit tired and grumpy during it, as you’d expect, but she has done really well.

“All the travelling there and back has been really hard too.”

Sadly, any hopes that Ruby could occasionally pop in to see her classmates at Redcar’s Wheatlands Primary School over the past few weeks were dashed by a few chickenpox cases at school.

But now Ruby’s treatment is finished, hopefully she can soon be back with her pals and in lessons.

By having the new TomoTherapy - a special form of re-radiating therapy which has only recently been made available - Ruby has become a UK pioneer.

Wayne added: “We were quite fortunate with her being the first person in the UK to be re-radiated.

"A few months ago, it wouldn’t have happened.”