Cancer survivor, 9, granted wish to be blessed

A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy who wrote to the Pope asking him to “help keep his cancer away” will be blessed by the Pontiff on his visit to Scotland.

Anton McManus, from East Kilbride, south of Glasgow, will meet Pope Benedict ahead of his Glasgow Mass, after the Vatican granted the schoolboy’s request yesterday.

Doctors discovered a cancerous tumour on Anton’s spine when he was four.