WATCH: Slick tricks win brave Michael place at magicians' school
TEENAGE tumour survivor Michael Wing has been accepted into a magic academy . Watch our video to see the routines that won him his place
TEENAGER Michael Wing has been accepted into a magic academy after a decade battling a brain tumour.
The 13-year-old Newman School pupil had chemotherapy and radiotherapy and still suffers headaches and stomach pains.
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Hide AdMichael, of Ingshead Avenue, Rawmarsh, realised a dream when he was picked to join Merlin’s Magic Academy in Wakefield.
He said: “It felt brilliant to find out I’d made it. I got involved with magic about three years ago, just with a few bits and bobs and a pack of cards. It just went from there.”
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