SMOKING, drinking and drug-taking mums-to-be inflict suffering on their babies, said a Burnley child care expert.

Consultant paediatrician, Dr Ian Swann, called for a strong partnership between pregnant mothers and Burnley Health Trust - because lives were at stake. The latest baby death figures for Burnley General Hospital showed little change in 1993.

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