SCHOOL friends of a girl who has undergone a life-saving liver transplant are busy making a video to tell the teenager how much they miss her.

Kind-hearted pupils at Walkden High School are also organising their own bus trip up to the Leeds hospital to see 15-year-old Kate Goodall when she is feeling better.

Brave Kate, of Manchester Road, Little Hulton, has amazed doctors with her progress after the eight operation on Tuesday at the famous St James Hospital -- but she is still very poorly.

She had been airlifted home from a two-week sunshine holiday in Rhodes for the urgent operation after being struck down by a rare illness called Wilson's Disease, which almost killed her.

Wilson's Disease is a hereditary disorder which affects just one in every 500,000 people. It is so rare it is not tested for but can be suddenly triggered, rapidly destroying the brain and liver.

Walkden High headteacher Elaine Hilton said the pupils were in shock when they heard the news -- her year group had expected to see her return looking tanned and happy.

She said: "You do not expect someone who has gone on holiday to get so close to death.

"The pupils are very competent and confident but this had hit them hard. They are so excited at the good news that Kate is out of danger, they want to do everything now." Kate, who loves pop music and horses, has now moved from the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit for children onto the high dependency unit.