<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f70e64fd-7cf9-40a3-bf27-aa1bf4cfc309/75AAF93E-7384-4BDE-A654-12670EEEEF54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/9D708831-C564-4696-983B-AFB930920F90" alt="Harvey Phillips at bellet practice: Harvey Phillips, 4, takes up ballet after losing limbs through meningitis " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html"><H1>Four-year-old boy takes up ballet after losing limbs through meningitis </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html"><H2> Harvey Phillips, who lost both his legs and one arm after suffering from meningitis, has defied the odds to take up ballet lessons. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html"><P> Harvey, from Louth, Lincolnshire, had his lower legs, right arm and fingers on his left hand amputated in 2005 when he was just nine months-old. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html"><P> But Harvey proved her wrong after watching his older sister Kayla, five, at her local ballet class. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5290719/Four-year-old-boy-takes-up-ballet-after-losing-limbs-through-meningitis.html"><P> He was so determined to take part that he took to the dance floor without the aid of traditional prosthetic limbs. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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