BRAVE five-year-old Dylan Munro is looking forward to "the best Christmas ever" after winning a trip to Lapland for being a model patient.

The courageous boy has endured months of painful treatment.

His proud mother Carrie Munro said: "This is going to be an amazing Christmas.

"I am going to spoil Dylan and his brother rotten and the visit to Lapland has really given us something happy to remember after all the heartache."

Dylan, of Jubilee Drive, Kidderminster, came out of Birmingham Children's Hospital only on Monday last week and is now on the road to recovery.

He has undergone four months of gruelling chemotherapy for non Hodgkins Lymphoma - a form of cancer which had attacked his bowel as well as causing him terrible pain leading up to diagnosis.

During his lengthy spell in hospital the plucky youngster was so well behaved that the children's social work team put his name forward for one of the trips to Lapland, offered by the When You Wish Upon a Star charity.