A couple have become the first in Britain to use a controversial screening technique to create a baby free of a rare and potentially life-threatening genetic disorder.

Tracey Hobbs and Peter Wills were so concerned that their offspring might be affected by a hereditary condition that has blighted Mr Wills's family that they had decided not to try for children.

Then they received Health Service funding for a £7,000 procedure which ensures that faulty genes which cause the disease are eliminated. Now the couple are the proud parents of a nine-month-old boy, Ethan.

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