2001 World Rally champion Richard Burns has been discharged from hospital, as he continues his battle against cance🐼r, according to his co-driv🎶er, Robert Reid, while he still has 'a fair way to go', he is 'making progress'.

Speaking to BBC Sport Online Reid added that it has been a 'big shoc𝐆k' seeing the Englishman so ill.

Burns was forced to miss the Wales Rally GB last year, after collapsing at the wheel of his car en-route to the event. He was later diagnosed with an astrocytoma - a form of brain tumour - which meant he has been forc🃏ed to sit out the current season, where he was due to drive alongside current world champion, Petter Solberg at Subaru.

"Richard has improved♛ to the point where he's at home," commented Reid.

"At the beginning of January, he'd lost a hell of a lot of weighℱ🀅t.

"He couldn't get out of bed for a while.

"I think the feeling of the people close to him at the moment is we are ꦇmaking progress, but that we've still got a fair way to go."

"It's been a big shock," added Reid. "I've seen him very🦩, very ill.

"But there have been a lot of great 💙moments, things that feel almost✤ as good as winning a world championship rally, but they're very small, very personal things, just to see somebody making an improvement."