Amateur footage shows the moment Joanne Milne from Gateshead, who has been deaf since birth and is now 40 years old, hears for the first time. Joanne has a rare medical condition called Usher syndrome, and as a result also began to lose her vision in her 20s. She was fitted with cochlear implants at a hospital in Birmingham in February, and is visibly overcome with emotion when hearing a nurse read the days of the week