An eight-year-old girl made a splash and became one of the first in the world to trial a new prosthetic arm - designed top help people SURF.

Joanie Melady wore the new support mechanism - described as the first of its kind - created to help surfers with upper body limb differences to ‘pop-up’ on their board.

The young girl from Chinnor, South Oxfordshire, tried out the new prosthetic arm at the UK’s largest inland surfing venue The Wave, Bristol.

Joanie was born with a congenital limb difference meaning that her left arm did not fully develop before birth.