Talk About Single Women Being Choosy

Sally Adams, 50, is appealing for an egg donor to help her conceive a child, but has asked that only women who graduated from either Oxford or Cambridge come forward.

For more than a decade, Ms Adams has tried and failed to become a mother, spending more than £15,000 on IVF treatment in the process. Despite living in Hampstead, north London, she believes there is a better chance of finding an intellectual donor from outside the capital and wants women from the country's two most elite universities to come forward and donate their eggs.

"Oxford is a very good possible catchment area," she said. "Many of my roots are there. I own a house in Oxford and I studied at Oxford University. Oxford and Cambridge are the seats of people who are both academic and intellectual and often very altruistic. An egg donor needs to be under 32 years old, and I am looking for someone who is educated, intellectual and possibly has connections with the colleges."

Ms Adams, an academic, is single and has previously been through IVF cycles with donor eggs, travelling as far as Crete to carry out the process. But problems with the donated eggs meant she never became pregnant.

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