BIG-hearted Ballingry youngster Kian Rafferty has given another Central Fife family a well deserved holiday.

The eight year-old won a Canvas Holiday break when he was named Central Fife Times/Dunfermline Press Community awards' Little Champion of the Year in 2016.

However due to his family already having a holiday booked and being unable to get any more time off work, they contacted the Times to see if they could give the prize to another family.

After checking with Canvas Holidays that it was ok to transfer the voucher, the Rafferty family asked for nominations of deserving families.

When much thought and consideration couldn't determine a winner, Kian had the job of picking a winner from the names put into his breakfast bowl.

The winner of the voucher for £1500 towards any Canvas Holiday came out as Kimberley Smith who was nominated by her sister, Natalie Smith.

In her nomination email, Natalie said her sister had been a hard working and great mum whose world was "rocked" when a scan during her third pregnancy showed her baby had spina bifida.

She gave birth to son Patrick Jack who had to undergo a huge operation a short time after and spend his first four months in Edinburgh's Sick Kids' Hospital.

"Kimberley is my sister and my rock and has always been there for everyone family and friends," she said. "She deserves this more than anyone I know."

Since Patrick was born, Kimberley has organised fundraisers for the Sick Kids Foundation to thank them for their work in helping Patrick and the family.

Elaine was delighted to give someone else the chance of the prize.

"We had got the holiday and couldn't go and it was Kian so who said why can't we give it somebody else," she explained. "There were three nominations who we couldn't decide between them so decided to put all three in and have Kian pick a winner.

"We had told him the stories of the three families and he is happy it is going to someone who really deserves it."

Kian was born with a rare condition called bladder exstrophy, meaning his bladder was outside his tummy.

Over his lifetime, he has regularly helped fundraise for the Great Ormond Street Hospital where he still attends regularly.