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Michael Traill and Claire Elliot have teamed up to produce Scottish Independent Media.

 

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LITTLE Hannah Erskine was not expected to live for 24 hours after she was born with major heart complications.

 

Now the toddler is to take part in a 10k walk in aid of the hospital that saved her.

 

The brave three-year-old was born with the main arteries in her heart swapped and a rare and potentially life-threatening infection that she picked up in her mother’s womb