CARING schoolboy and self confessed chocaholic Ashton Wren has spent the past year denying himself his favourite food to raise money for Parkinson's UK.

The ten year-old decided to support a favourite teaching assistant at Brompton Primary School, near Northallerton, Leah Forster who was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 42, five years ago. Now he has just over a week to go before he can indulge one of his favourite pastimes, eating chocolate. He's already raised £260 and hopes to make £300. Leah has raised over £28,000 for the charity since being diagnosed.

Mrs Forster said: "I am just bowled over, he is such a lovely lad, his thoughtfulness and kindness has really touched me it's amazing. We even saw him picking the chocolate off a choc ice so he didn't break his promise. For someone so young to be so dedicated it's astonishing."