THIS brave little Cudworth girl enjoys nothing more than riding around on her new trike - despite suffering from a devastating rare genetic disorder.

Four-year-old Trinity Anderson developed Rett Syndrome before her first birthday and she cannot move herself around or communicate with the world.

But the tricycle, donated by the Whizz Kids charity in partnership with Tesco, enables her to lead a more normal life.

Mum Sara told the Chronicle this week of the struggles she and her husband Matthew have gone through since Trinity was born in March 2002.

After an uneventful pregnancy and labour, their daughter developed normally until the age of eight months.

But then they started noticing signs that the condition, which affects around one in 10,000 babies, mainly girls, had taken hold.

Trinity was not diagnosed until she was two and her developmental age remains seven months. She will need constant care for the rest of her life. She suffers complications, including epilepsy and chest infections, so severe she had to have a tube fitted into her stomach to feed her.

Despite her problems, Trinity travels from her Storrs Wood View home to the Wonderland nursery in Cudworth and will attend Greenacre School from January.

Sara, a part-time call centre worker, said: “Normally, children don’t develop the condition until they are two years old.

“Then they firstly stop learning new skills, and then lose skills they already had.

“But with Trinity it was different, she was only six months old when she stopped learning new skills so she is at the severe end of the spectrum.”