A little boy who has been unable to eat since birth is finally enjoying tucking into culinary delights after he was saved by Granny's chicken stew.

Four-year-old twin Harrison Cooper-Jones was coaxed out of an extreme form of starvation therapy when he was faced with Antoinette Cooper's family favourite recipe.

The Cooper stew has been passed down for generations and now Harrison faces a brighter future thanks to the homely mix.

Harrison's problems began when he was born with a malformation of the oesophagus.

An operation to fix the life-threatening condition when he was two-days-old didn't work as the scar tissue left behind meant he suffered severe reflux and he couldn't keep anything down.

Despite an operation when he was two-years-old, in which medics attached Harrison's food pipe directly to his stomach, the psychological damage was done and Harrison could not face food.

The family have been in close contact with the charity TOFS which support families whose children have Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula (TOF) and Oesophageal Atresia (OA). The charity have an awareness week from September 11-18.