A severely disabled Bradford girl, whose condition has baffled doctors since she was born, has died at the age of 14 after suffering a massive fit.

Chloe Hudson, of Dudley Hill, was unable to crawl, walk, talk, eat, or even sit up in a chair, and could go for days without waking up.

But her bright smile - featured regularly in the Telegraph & Argus over the past two years as she battled against her condition - captured the hearts of thousands of Bradford people.

Last year, her mum Peta launched a charity called Buy a Child a Smile to raise money to send Chloe, and other youngsters like her who suffer from no recognised condition, on a dream holiday.

After raising thousands of pounds, the family had planned to take Chloe to Disney World in February. Chloe died just a day after returning to her home in Longfield Drive following an operation at Leeds General Infirmary which had seemed to go well.

She was rushed back to hospital after her parents raised concerns and she later suffered a massive fit. She died in an ambulance on the way to Martin House hospice for sick children near Wetherby, which she had regularly visited during her life.

Mrs Hudson has remained at the hospice with Chloe, her partner Roy and two other children, Reanne, 11, and five-year-old Leon, since her death.

"It still seems really surreal and has not sunk in properly," she said today. "I am OK during the days, but it is really bad at night and when it comes to the times when I would normally have been feeding her or giving her medicine.

"I have not been back home yet. All Chloe's Christmas presents are wrapped up and waiting for her. We had got all her toys except for her special Christmas outfit, and I am still going to go to York to get that for her."

Mrs Hudson said she had always known that Chloe was in danger but had never asked doctors how long she might live. Before having the recent operation, Chloe had been happier and healthier than ever, she said.

"For me and Roy, Chloe was everything," she said. "All that we did was based around Chloe - the feeding, the bathing and the giving of medicines. The house is going to seem so empty without Chloe and all her things."

Mrs Hudson had recently been granted permission to extend the family home and build a new bedroom for Chloe and fill it with some of the special toys bought with money raised by T&A readers.

"It dominated our lives, but I would rather still be doing everything," said Mrs Hudson. "Chloe was just always happy, even though she had so many problems to cope with. She never moaned - even when she was very poorly."

Mrs Hudson paid tribute to the support of the staff at Martin House and her friends and family, particularly Angie Chippendale who has helped run the Buy a Child a Smile charity.

"Angie has dropped everything for me and running the charity has changed both our lives," she said. "The charity was not just about Chloe and we are going to carry on with it and help send other children on holiday."

The charity recently benefited from a £2,000 donation from Margarete Boyce, whose Castaway Productions theatre group donated the takings from a special preview show of a performance shown at the Edinburgh Festival.

Details have yet to be finalised for the funeral, but Chloe will be buried next to her brother Reece, who died aged nine days, and sister Lola, who died aged two days, both of whom were born prematurely.