A six-year-old girl is recovering well after she had a bone marrow transplant from her big brother Jack.

The Elderfield family have now celebrated Ella’s return home, after a month spent in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.

The Halfway Houses Primary pupil suffers from Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia – a rare medical condition that means her blood does not clot and a small cut could haemorrhage for days.

She has undergone two emergency transfusions.

Her nine-year-old brother Jack was the brave donor and underwent the procedure to remove marrow from his hip on July 12.

Before the operation, their father Ross Elderfield said it had an 80% chance of being successful.

Now doctors have given the good news that the transplant has been accepted by Ella’s body.

Beforehand, she had to go through chemotherapy to kill off the blood cells in her body that did not work properly so that she could grow healthy ones from the new bone marrow.

This means she is still recovering at home and probably will not be able to go back to school until the new year.

Mr Elderfield, 34, said: “It was 100% successful, which was more than we were expecting, so we are really pleased with that.

“It is just a case now of building her immune system back up. She has got to go for regular check-ups for the next few months, definitely.

“The amount of support we have had from friends and family helping out has been tremendous.

“Now she’ll be able to do the stuff she couldn’t do before. Eating sharp foods and taking part in certain sports.”