A journalist from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner is fighting a form of leukaemia thought never to have been seen before.

Adrian Sudbury was diagnosed with two distinct types of the disease running at the same time and is now undergoing treatment - and writing a blog about his experiences.

After feeling ill and going to A&E, Adrian was told by doctors that he had leukaemia and may have died within weeks if it had not been discovered.

He has since undergone two cycles of chemotherapy and is due to have a bone marrow transplant later this month.

Adrian, (25), told HoldtheFrontPage: "Chemotherapy has not worked so my only option of a cure is to have a bone marrow transplant.

"My sister was tested but is only a partial match, but thankfully doctors have found a 29-year-old German woman on a donor database who is a match and who is willing to go ahead."

The procedure is now pencilled in for April 23, once the donor marrow has been couriered over from Germany to Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital, where Adrian is being treated.

He said: "It's a logistical nightmare. An isolation room in the hospital has to be free and they give the donor three possible dates to donate the marrow.

"I left hospital three weeks ago, but the first week I was still recovering from pneumonia - after chemotherapy your bone marrow is wiped out and you are prone to infection."

Back in October Adrian had been feeling very poorly, but at first put it down to fatigue as he had just started a new job.

But after a week's training in Liverpool, and just two days into his new role as a digital journalist on www.examiner.co.uk, he was forced to call in sick.

A week later he drove himself to A&E and has since spent the majority of his time in hospital. Doctors found he had Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and a second chronic form.

According to medical literature he is the only person in the world to have this condition, and as such it was not possible to offer Adrian a prognosis.

Adrian said: "Looking back it was horrible, I was really ill.

"But I think a big part of it is to stay positive and that gives you a good chance."

However he is not out of the woods yet, as doctors say there is up to a 30 per cent chance of dying during a bone marrow transplant.

So before the procedure Adrian is filling his days doing "fun things" with friends and family - and is also writing a blog for the Examiner website.