A five-year-old girl woke from a coma after hearing her favourite pop song by James Blunt on the hospital radio, the Daily Mirror reported on Tuesday.

Claudia Dealwis’s parents Paul and Gaynor, both 40, cried tears of joy and hugged her as her eyes finally opened after 10 days in a coma in a hospital in Burnley, northern Britain.

The song, You’re Beautiful, became an instant hit when released last summer.

Paul said: “We were just so relieved she is out of the coma. We couldn’t believe it. Claudia loves that song and is always singing it. It’s like her very own little theme tune.”

Doctors had feared Claudia might not pull through after she fell head-first from a balcony at a friend’s house and fractured her skull.

“She is progressing slowly and hopefully she can do it,” her father told the Mirror. - Sapa-dpa