Doorstep delivery!

The ambulance doors had barely closed on mum-to-be Trina Hancock, 28, when her baby daughter arrived.

The 6lb 6oz baby girl was delivered in three minutes by ambulance technician Colin Willis and paramedic Brad Williams while the vehicle was outside Trina's home in Corporation Street, Accrington.

Almost a year ago to the day the same ambulance crew were called to a public phone box in Church where a mum-to-be was dialling 999 when her son made his lightning arrival.

Colin said: "We didn't have a chance to pull away from the side of the pavement." Trina's sister, Judith, who lives in Fountain Street, was in the ambulance and saw her niece being born, on Monday lunchtime.

Another sister, Fiona Graham, who lives next door, said: "I think Trina was a bit embarrassed about it because all the street were out."

Trina has two sons, Jonathan, six, Jody, ten, and a daughter, Sam, nine.

Neighbour Graham Ainsworth offered to run Trina to the hospital. Fiona's partner Robert Grant said: "It's a good job he didn't or she would have had the baby in his car."

Mum and baby were taken to Queen's Park Hospital and Trina said dad Mark Campbell was "thrilled."

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