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A son has saved his father's life by giving him half of his liver in a transplant operation. Naresh Aggarwal, 54, had liver cancer until his 21-year-old student son Day stepped forward.

The NHS says a liver transplant between two living people is highly successful. Usually those operations are carried out between people who are related and normally between a parent and a child born with a diseased organ.

Only a handful of liver transplants from a younger person to an older relative are carried out every year, according to the NHS. Day said he was very lucky and "jumped at the chance" to help save his dad's life, and had no doubts about donating part of his liver.

His father Naresh thanked his son for what he'd done, and said that despite lots of complications after the operation, "it's wonderful to be alive and it really is the gift of life".

There are around six and a half thousand people in the UK currently waiting for an organ transplant. The number of people needing a new liver has more than doubled over the past seven years, with around 600 people at the moment on the waiting list.

The British Liver Trust urged more people to register as donors.

This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on Wednesday 2nd December 2015

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