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‘I channelled everything I saw on Casualty’: Drama teacher delivers baby on bus

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A drama teacher who helped safely deliver a baby on a rural bus said she used all the medical knowledge she had learned from watching the TV show Casualty.

The real-life drama unfolded when a young mother suddenly went into labour on her way to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on Tuesday morning.

Susan Lay, 41, a freelance actor and youth theatre teacher, was sat on the top deck when the driver suddenly stopped the number 27 by

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