A grandmother has become one of the longest-surviving transplant patients in the country after 40 years living with a donated kidney.
Kathleen Hart, 70, underwent a kidney transplant in December 1973, with the organ expected to last for just five years.
The retired postal worker has stunned experts by living with the kidney for eight times as long, and is still the picture of good health.
She believes her good fortune is all the more remarkable because she had her transplant on the traditionally unlucky day of Friday the 13th.
She said: 'It is a wonderful feeling to have proved the experts wrong. And to be told that I am one of the longest survivors in the UK is a real honour and an accolade I am proud of.
'I haven't got a theory why the kidney has lasted so long - I don't have any special food, drink or activity to help things. I suppose I'm just a very, very lucky person.
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