LAST week The Chronicle featured 11-month-old Isaac Hughes who has Moebius Syndrome stopping him from making facial expressions.

In this Friday’s Chronicle, reporter Rebecca Edwards talks to a Bank of America worker with the same condition.

Like baby Isaac, Chester Bank of America staff member Gareth Roberts has Moebius Syndrome which stops him smiling, moving his face or closing his eyes.

Gareth, of Penyffordd near Broughton, met Isaac’s parents Ceri and Philip, formerly of Chester, last week to discuss the reality of growing up without the sixth and seventh cranial nerves, which control facial expression.

The rare condition is thought to affect only 200 people in the UK and there is no known cure.

Read his full story in this Friday’s Chronicle.