Heather leads call for blood donors

Campaigner Heather Mills McCartney urged people today to save more lives by giving blood.

She was launching World Blood Donor Day, which celebrates the lives saved by transfusions.

Mills McCartney, wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, was horrifically injured in a 1993 motorcycle accident in which she lost her leg.

She told BBC Breakfast today: "They announced four times to my sister that I would die so she should go in and say goodbye to me.

"I had many, many transfusions and I survived to tell the tale and that is why I am putting this message out."

She added: "So many people have given blood and saved my life."