Clever Kate shines brightest

SHE may be confined to a wheelchair, have limited speech and hearing and severe life-threatening respiratory problems.

But four-year-old Kate Crowley will be top of the class when she starts primary school next year.

Her parents John and Maria have always believed that their daughter, who suffers from a barely-known disease which affects just one in every 100,000 babies worldwide, had an intellect way beyond her years.