Wakefield schoolgirl suffered brain injury after being knocked over by a zorb ball in 'freak accident'

Lily-Mae West, eight, was on a family holiday at a caravan park when a football zorb ball – an inflatable sphere that people climb inside – knocked her face-first into the concrete floor. The youngster sustained a brain injury and broke 15 bones in her skull, including both her eye sockets, her eyebrows and the roof of her mouth.

Reflecting on the accident, which happened in February this year, Lily-Mae's mum Katie said it was a “freak accident' which “didn't seem real”.