Millie Fairley, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, suffers from a rare blood disorder which means the bone marrow cannot make enough new blood cells for the body to work normally, making it harder to fight infection, stop bleeding or carry oxygen

A teenage girl is facing a desperate race against time for a stem cell donor that would save her life after she was diagnosed with an extremely rare blood disorder.

Millie Fairley, 13, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, has aplastic anaemia, which affects around two people in every million in the UK. The condition means the bone marrow cannot make enough new blood cells for the body to work normally, making it harder to fight infection, stop bleeding or carry oxygen.

Millie's mother Hayley Fairley, 47, said the diagnosis changed the lives of her family

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