A BABY recovering from a lifesaving operation is making good progress.

Doctors say Lennox Nicholson still has a long way to go before he is out of danger, but say they are happy with his progress.

After moving out of the intensive care unit last week, at St James's University Hospital, in Leeds, Lennox had his first solid food this week.

The six-month-old had only days to live after he was born with an incurable bile duct condition.

Doctors told his parents, Simon Nicholson and Amy Robinson, from Guisborough, east Cleveland, that if a donor liver could not be found, Lennox would die on Christmas Eve.

But he was given a chance of life when a liver became available, and Lennox was immediately taken into theatre for a ten-hour operation.

A family friend said: "Everything is going very well. He has now had a couple of good nights' sleep.

"He is feeding well and he is a lot jollier now and is smiling."