BOBBY Brown has had his first sight-saving operation in the US.

As reported in last week’s Warrington Guardian, the eight-week-old was too ill to have the operation.

But he was taken for his first transplant on Friday and was due to have a second this week.

Bobby’s parents Wes and Cath, from Orford, have travelled to Rochester, New York to be with the baby.

The transplant surgery will see artificial corneas replace the cloudy corneas he has and give him vision.

Recovering time for the surgery is expected to take 17 days.

Residents in Warrington have raised more than £50,000 to help pay for the pioneering work.