More than 200 families from across Britain - including a boy from Wantage - gathered in Oxford to celebrate the 21st anniversary of a pioneering medical unit.
Among the guests was four-year-old Robbie Boyd, from Elizabeth Drive, Wantage, pictured with Sue Greenwood, a craniofacial clinical nurse specialist.
Sue Greenwood and Robbie Boyd
The craniofacial unit, based at the Radcliffe Infirmary, in Woodstock Road, Oxford, treats children and infants with skull abnormalities.
The patients, sometimes as young as a few months old, suffer from craniosynostosis, which means growth points in the skull do not develop properly and the brain is slowly crushed.
Former and current patients, and their families, brought picnics and joined hospital staff to commemorate the landmark.
Robbie's mother, Chris Boyd, said: "There used to be a ridge of bone along the top of his head and to start off with we didn't know what was wrong with him.
"It was such a relief to know it could be treated."
**Picture: Richard Cave
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