Article: Friends' kidney swap 'success'

THE North-East's first friend-to-friend live kidney transplant appears to be a success, organ donor Derek Marshall has revealed.

Mr Marshall, 56, who donated one of his kidneys to lifelong friend Bill Brough, 54, on Wednesday, was speaking from his home in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, yesterday.

"They have done tests at the hospital and the kidney is working all right," said Mr Marshall, who went home from the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, at lunchtime.

"It is brilliant news, isn't it?" he said, still feeling slightly groggy from the anaesthetic.

After a seven-hour double operation carried out by two teams of

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