Boy who lost seven litres of blood issues plea for more donors

Elliott Wills, 13, is calling for more O negative and B negative blood donors after his life was saved by transfusions last year (family handout/PA) -

A teenage boy who lost seven litres of blood has called for more people to donate the blood type which saved his life.

Elliott Wills, from Cornwall, was bleeding faster than donated blood could be transfused into his body after a main artery burst last year.