A boy with Type 1 diabetes has rallied his schoolfriends together to raise money and awareness of his lifelong condition.

Year 5 pupil Mason asked that children at his school Ysgol Gynradd Llanidloes to wear blue - the official colour of diabetes awareness. The school's heartfelt gesture raised £72.15 from 50p donations.

Ysgol Gynradd Llanidloes headteacher Elen Prysor Chennetier said Mason was keen to raise money for the charity while helping to raise awareness of the condition amongst his school community.

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The fundraiser was held on World Diabetes Day (November 14) to mark 100 years since Frederick Banting and John Macleod won a Nobel Prize for discovering the treatment which has gone on to save millions of lives around the world - insulin.

Since then, scientists have made breakthroughs from helping people with type 1 to make their own insulin, to putting type 2 into remission.

Diabetes is a condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high. There are two main types of diabetes: type 1 is a lifelong condition where the body's immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin, and type 2 where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react to insulin properly.

Type 2 diabetes is far more common than type 1. In the UK, more than 90 per cent of all adults with diabetes have type 2.