A schoolboy whose life was saved by Google is back to his “cheeky self” after beating a brain tumour.

Eight-year-old Jake Turton had an all-clear scan back in July and his family are waiting for his next scan and check- up at the end of this month.

His mum Cath said: “It’s 18 months since he finished his treatment and he’s doing really well. He’s got all his personality back and is back to his cheeky self.”

It was touch and go for the young Bradford City fan who was diagnosed with the malignant tumour, which had spread to his spine, after his mum Googled his symptoms.

Alarm bells had started ringing when he kept being sick and he was given only a week to live – but thanks to pioneering treatment he survived against the odds. Although he still struggles with movement, he is back at school at St Paul’s Primary in Buttershaw full-time.

He has had to learn to walk and talk again, but is doing well and a typical little boy, said Mrs Turton. She added: “The wheelchair hasn’t been out of the garage for six months now, which shows just how much he is improving. He’s getting stronger by the day.”

The family, who live in Northowram, have just returned from a holiday in Cornwall.

Mrs Turton said: “It was such a difference to what Christmas was like a couple of years ago when he was so ill.

“We actually feel we are able to start planning ahead now as a family, which is fantastic.”

At first Jake’s parents had thought he was just playing up to avoid school, but an internet search of his symptoms revealed the real reason for his illness.

He underwent brain surgery and was in a coma for ten weeks and had to endure months of chemotherapy.

A week before treatment was due to begin that would have given him a 30 per cent chance of surviving over the next three years, his oncologist from Leeds General Infirmary had attended a meeting of UK specialists where it was agreed an Italian treatment, the Milan Protocol – which has a 73 per cent survival rate over five years – could be used in this country.

As part of that gruelling treatment, a regime of radiotherapy and chemo-therapy, Jake had to have general anaesthetic twice a day for almost five weeks.

Mrs Turton said: “We are just so grateful he was given the chance of that treatment.”