A team of serving police officers have climbed the highest mountain in the UK to support their Sergeant as his 16-month-old daughter waits for a life-saving heart transplant.
Little Beatrix Archbold, from Burnopfield, County Durham, fell ill last month with heart failure and fought back from a cardiac arrest. She then underwent surgery to attach her to a Berlin Heart Ventricular Assist Device, which does the work of her own failing heart.
Beatrix is currently waiting at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle for a donor organ which will save her life. Doctors will need to keep her condition stable until a new heart becomes available. However sadly there is no guarantee that she will receive one.
