A YOUNG boy who was left with a catastrophic brain injury after failings during his birth at Bolton hospital has won multi-million-pound NHS damages.

Now seven, the boy was born at the Royal Bolton Hospital in 2011, Judge Geoffrey Tattersall QC told London's High Court.

He was left with cerebral palsy after his brain was deprived of oxygen during his delivery.

He has severe motor disabilities and learning difficulties, cognitive impairment and epilepsy.

He suffers from frequent involuntary movements and has difficulty swallowing and feeding.

His lawyers sued Bolton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, for compensation.

Andrew Kennedy, for the trust, today repeated 'the apology that was made to his parents at the time admission of liability was made in 2013'.

And now the trust has agreed to pay the boy a lump-sum of £4million, together with index-linked annual payments to cover his care costs for the rest of his life.

These payments will start at £110,000 a year until he is 11, rise to £175,000 a year until he turns 19 and then increase to £255,000 a year for life.

Judge Tattersall approved the 'very sensible and worthwhile' settlement and praised the boy's parents.

They had, he said, gone 'far and away beyond what one would normally expect parents to do for a child'.

It was to their 'enormous credit they have done all this selflessly and for the love of their child'.

And they deserved to be 'congratulated enormously for what they have done for this child'.

"They have devoted their lives to this child and his well-being."

Trish Armstrong-Child, Director of Nursing at the Royal Bolton Hospital, said: “We’re very sorry that the care given did not meet expected standards and for the distress this has caused.  The Trust is pleased that we have been able to achieve a settlement”.