More than 200 people in Bath signed up for the NHS organ donor register when a campaign bus visited the city.

The bright red Donor Bus was in the city for the British Transplant Games.

It set up shop in the city centre on Saturday, as part of the four-day sporting event, and signed up 264 people.

The bus was manned by volunteers from the families of people whose organs have been used in transplant operations.

Ray Pearson, the founder of the Brightside of Life transplant charity, which runs the Donor Bus, said he was pleased with the response.

Mr Pearson, from Nailsea, travels around the country in it and said the bus offered a great way to make people aware of the importance of becoming a donor.

He set up the organisation after he lost his 17-year-old daughter Nicola in a road accident 14 years ago.

Her organs were donated, and Mr Pearson said the family took comfort from the fact that others had been helped.

He said: "It is a comfort to me to know that some good came out of a horrible situation.

"We have had a lot of people coming onto the bus to chat to us."

David Nix, from the Donor Family Network which brings together the families of donors, was at the games to represent them.

His daughter Rebecca became an organ donor after her death in a road accident in 1996.

Mr Nix said: "This event is bitter sweet for donor families, as they have all lost someone important.

"However you only have to look at the happy faces of the transplant athletes to see that organ donation is such a wonderful thing.

"Without the bravery of the donor families, these athletes wouldn't be here today."

The Games aimed to celebrate the courage and bravery of transplant recipients, as well as remember those who donated organs.

More than 10,000 people in the UK need an organ transplant and three people a day die before an organ is available.

For more information, or to join the organ donor register, visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk.