A BRAVE little girl who battled through 18 months of chemotherapy was treated to a great surprise last night.

Grace Ann Kemp, who finished the intensive treatment in February, was taken to see her pop favourites Westlife in style – driven in a limousine.

Grace Ann was born with neurofibromatosis, or Nf1, a genetic condition affecting the skin and nervous system which causes tumours to grow around the body.

The six-year-old, from Ushaw Moor, near Durham City, underwent a bone transplant at the age of two, and was diagnosed with a brain tumour shortly after her third birthday.

Now a pupil at St Joseph’s RCVA Primary School, in Ushaw Moor, she is in relatively good health.

The surprise limousine picked her up from home last night and took her to the concert by the Irish popstars at Newcastle Arena.

Her mother, Judith Kemp, said: “She’s a big fan of Westlife. She knew she was going to the concert but she didn’t know about the limousine.

“It was her end-of-treatment present. She’s absolutely fine now. She’s doing really well. She takes it all in her stride – the chemotherapy and everything else. She just says: ‘Ok mam, Ok dad’.”

Along with her mother, Grace Ann also lives with father Joe and 14-year-old brother Sean.