by Angela Cole
and Helen Fairley
acole@thekmgroup.co.uk

Teenager Charlie Denyer is celebrating this week after getting the results he wanted from his GCSEs.

But unlike most of his peers, Charlie was already celebrating a much more important set of results. Sixteen-year-old Charlie, from Owletts Close, Shepway, Maidstone, has just been given the all-clear from a rare form of cancer which forced him to miss half a year’s schooling in the build-up to his GCSEs.

Despite this, he scooped nine C-grade GCSE passes to secure a place at Mid Kent College to study for a National Diploma in public services.

The Year 11 New Line Learning Academy student underwent a four-hour operation to remove part of his leg and hip at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London in November last year, days before his 16th birthday, after being diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma.

His father, Alan Denyer, said: “It is a lot of relief. Getting the all-clear means we can get on with things – we are more or less back to normal.”

For the full story see this Friday's Kent Messenger.