We hear about the importance of early intervention in rare cases of pre-teen eating disorders. Plus, calls to ban hands-free phone use while driving

Maggie and her husband James have four daughters. While their oldest, Hattie, was still at primary school, she began severely restricting the amount she ate and exercising obsessively.

Eating disorders in young people can be life-threatening, although this wasn’t the case for Hattie. Her case was unusual because of the age at which her problems began – she was nine.