Newborn found in plastic bag

POLICE have appealed for the mother of a baby girl to come forward after the newborn was abandoned in a plastic bag in a street.

The baby, believed to be between one and five days old, was found wrapped in a blanket inside a carrier bag outside a house in Stotfold in Hitchin, Bedfordshire.

She was discovered when the owner of the house in Kipling Crescent was locking up for the evening at about 9pm yesterday.