The eight-year-old girl's recovery has stunned relations who are now planning a huge celebration to thank everyone for their support over the last two years.

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Today, a smiling Georgina said: "I am glad I am not in hospital any more.

"The nurses looked after me and sometimes they made me laugh, but now I am at home having holiday fun just running around and playing swing ball and things."

Mum, Adele, 37, of Elgin Avenue, Seaham, said she had been overwhelmed by people's good luck wishes and offers of help.

She said: "It's been traumatic, but we've got through it and now we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

"She is at home now and everything is starting to get back to normal."

The battle with cancer began in April 2006 when a cut on Georgina's finger would not heal.

Her parents took her to the doctor who gave her antibiotics, but her condition got worse.

She became very lethargic, she had trouble balancing, and when she broke out in a rash, her parents took her to casualty.

After a series of blood tests doctors diagnosed Georgina with leukaemia and took her to Newcastle RVI where her treatment could begin.

Adele said: "It was horrible. For the first six months of her treatment we were never away from the hospital.

"It really was the worst thing you can ever imagine.

"You look back now and think how did we do it?

"But we did, we got there, and we are at the end of that road now, hopefully."

The family said Georgina, a pupil at Westlea Primary School, Seaham, had taken the treatment and the recovery in her stride.

Georgina said she was enjoying the school holidays playing swing-ball and running around with her 12-year-old brother, Steven.

Adele, who works for East Durham Housing, said: "Everyone's so pleased she's better.

"We've had a lot of support from family and friends and people we don't even really know.

"We are getting a couple or marques put up in the garden and a magician and stuff for her.

"We are really pushing the boat out."

Dad, Tony, 40, a vehicle technician, and Adele want to thank both sets of grandparents for their unshakable support.

In turn Dorothy, Adele's mum, wanted to thank Rev Paul Harrison, of New Seaham Christ Church and St Andrew's, Dalton-le-Dale, who included Georgina on the churches' prayer lists.

Dorothy, 65, of Watson Close, Seaham, said: "There was not a day that went by that someone didn't ring to ask how Georgina was."