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Ten British women will get the chance to carry their own babies after doctors received the go-ahead for the first ever womb transplants in the UK. Dr Richard Smith will lead the team hoping to perform the UK's first ever womb transplant following the success of the procedure in Sweden. Ethical approval has been granted by a special committee at Imperial College London for 10 transplants as part of a clinical trial. It will launch in the spring and more than 100 women have been identified as potential recipients of donor wombs. Around one in 5,000 women are born without a womb, while others lose their womb to cancer. If the trial is successful, the first British baby born as a result of a womb transplant could arrive in late 2017 or 2018, with more in the future. Dr Smith, 55, a consultant gynaecologist at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, has been working on the project for 19 years and said he was "really pleased" to have been granted approval. I&#