A TALENTED young footballer has lost her battle with leukaemia, aged 14.

Paige Watts, of Estuary Close, Colchester, had been fighting the cancer for a year.

The Gilberd School pupil played as striker for her school team and Colchester Town ladies under-15s.

Coach Kim Farmer said she was a model player who could have gone on to be professional.

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