Disneyland Paris refused to let a three-year-old boy take part in its “princess for a day” experience because he was not a girl, his mother has said. Hayley McLean-Glass, from Paignton in Devon, said her son Noah was “buzzing with excitement” when he found out that the theme park offered the chance to dress up as princesses, including Elsa from Frozen, but when she tried to book via email she was told that the activity was not for boys.

Charlie Gard’s mother is helping a young family to save a toddler given “days to live” by doctors who say that he should be “allowed to die”. Alfie Evans has been in a coma for eight months and experts believe that he could have the same condition as Charlie Gard. His parents, Thomas Evans, 20, and Kate James, 19, have launched a campaign to raise £50,000 to get him treatment abroad.