A woman who wants to use her daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has appealed to judges to allow her to proceed.

The 60-year-old, whose daughter died of cancer in 2011, is asking three Court of Appeal judges after losing at the High Court last year.

The court was told the 28-year-old daughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was desperate to have children and asked her mother to "carry my babies".

The woman and her 59-year-old husband, who both cannot be named, are appealing against an independent regulator's refusal to allow them to take their daughter's eggs to a US fertility clinic to be used with donor sperm.

Her QC, Jenni Richards, told judges on Wednesday that the woman wants to fulfill her daughter's wishes and carry a child from her frozen eggs.

However the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said the eggs cannot be released as the dying woman did not give full written consent before she died.

It was claimed the daughter would have been "devastated" if she had known her eggs would not be used. Ms Richards said the "inevitable" consequence would be that the eggs "will simply be allowed to perish".

Ms Richards argued to Court of Appeal judges in London there is "clear evidence" the daughter wanted "to have her child after death", and the decision is solely regarding the "evaluation of the evidence of [the deceased] wishes".

If the appeal is successful, her mother could become the first person in the world to become pregnant using a dead daughter's eggs.