PAIGE Lance was so eager to enter the world, her mum had to give birth in a car... at the entrance of Colchester General Hospital.
Contractions began in the early hours of yesterday, but Phil and Laura-Jo Lance were advised they had time to get son Hayden, seven, to school before driving to hospital.
There was no cause for alarm until the couple hit Colchester’s notoriously- congested roads and came to a standstill on Mill Road.
Then Laura-Jo’s waters broke.
See Friday's Gazette for the full story
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