A mother has launched a legal battle to gain possession of her dead daughter's frozen eggs so that she can become pregnant with her own child - a case which experts believe is "a world first".
The woman, 59, and her 58-year-old husband are challenging a refusal made by an independent regulator to allow them to take the eggs to a fertility treatment clinic in the US.
The parents claim that they are only trying to carry out their daughter's dying wish.
Their daughter - the couple's only child - died of bowel cancer in her late 20s, and her dying wish was for her eggs to be fertilised by donor sperm and implanted into her own mother's womb.
The daughter initially had her eggs frozen after being diagnosed with cancer in the hope that she herself could have children in the future, but lost her battle for life.
Her parents want to export the eggs to New York, where a clinic has indicated it is willing to provide fertility treatment at an estimated cost of up to £60,000.
There are only a handful of cases worldwide in which a woman has become a surrogate for her own daughter's child.
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