Woman gives birth in rescue helicopter flying her from Scilly to Truro

Jennie Trevithick says she felt super safe' while giving birth to son in midair

A woman has said she could not have felt safer as she gave birth, even though it happened on a rescue helicopter whizzing her from the Isles of Scilly to the Cornish mainland.

Jennie Trevithick was being flown from the island of St Mary's to have her baby at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro but her labour progressed so quickly that baby Ebbyn arrived in the world before the coastguard helicopter could land.