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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Paul Drury

MSPs urged to improve maternity services and stop rural babies being born at roadside

Holyrood will this week be urged to stop rural mums-to-be being forced to have babies at the roadside.

Campaigners say maternity services are located so centrally, women in remote areas often can’t reach the hospital in time.

Isabella Vance’s birth ­certificate shows she entered the world on a cold January night on the “A714, at roadend of Cairnhouse Farm, Wigtown”.

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