POLICE who stopped a taxi after seeing it speeding through traffic lights found the driver's wife giving birth on the back seat.
The mother, who was Asian, had been unable to make anyone understand on the telephone and had waited for her husband to come home. Police escorted the couple to Burnley General Hospital and didn't press charges.
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