SURGEONS at Papworth hospital near Cambridge successfully transplanted a heart and lung into 29-year-old Ian Banham from Blackburn.
Caver Mr Banham had been called by doctors and rushed to the specialist transplant unit six days earlier.
He had been about to descend Whitescar show caves at Ingleton when the call came through.
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