BABY Cerys Gordon, who entered the world in the back of a Fiesta in Chippenham Community Hospital's car park a year ago, has been celebrating her first birthday with the Gazette and Herald.

Mum Stella's waters broke in the car as her husband Stuart rushed her the 12 miles from their home in Lower Compton to the hospital in the early hours of May 22.

When they reached the car park, the baby's head had emerged and by the time her husband fetched the midwives, she was delivered.

Mrs Gordon said staff at the hospital nicknamed the tot "the car park baby,"after the incredible delivery.

But Mrs Gordon, who was brought up in Cwmbran, in Wales, said she was relieved to have a daughter because she and her husband could not agree on any Welsh boys' names for the baby.

Sitting on the bonnet of the Fiesta in which Cerys was born, Mrs Gordon helped her daughter blow out the candles on her cake a present from the Gazette but insisted she would not be having any more babies in cars.

Mrs Gordon, who recently changed her name from Tracy to Stella, recalled: "The staff in Chippenham's maternity ward were wonderful."

Mrs Gordon, 38, said she was planning a buffet for friends and relatives to celebrate Cerys' birthday.

She said: "Cerys isn't walking yet, but she crawls very fast."

No doubt speed will always be one of Cerys' strong points.