Mum’s shock as tot born in -4C car park
Colin and Chris Weir, 2011
A MUM gave birth alone hugging a bollard in a freezing hospital car park.
Jordan Corbett, 27, was left cradling baby Dennis inside her leggings after partner Craig Stott, 34, ran inside to get help.
Jordan, of Seend, Wilts, said that when labour pains began, medics told her the baby was not due.
But after they worsened Craig drove her to the Royal United Hospital, Bath.
Jordan stumbled across the car park but could only make it to a bollard opposite the front doors.
She said: “It was -4C and had snowed the day before.
“I just had to stop to take a picture of the bollard when I left the hospital.”
Dennis, 7lb 9oz, went home next day to meet siblings Harley, nine, Harrison, six, and Darcey, four.
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SPLIT Colin and Chris divorced in 2019
WHEN the couple won their massive amount they were living in a three-bedroom detached house in Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland.
But overnight they became one of the richest couples in Britain and set about enjoying their wealth by investing in fabulous period properties.
The couple also pumped a fortune into their favourite football team, Partick Thistle, and even took a foray into politics with donations to the Scottish nationalists.
But the couple “drifted apart” when Colin went to Partick Thistle games while his wife attended charity events. They had a quickie divorce in April 2019 and Colin signed their £3million mansion in Troon in Ayrshire over to his wife.
She sold it just weeks later and Colin moved into a £1.5million waterfront home just outside Ayr.
Sadly Colin died, aged 71, in December 2019.