Teen loses stomach after having nitrogen cocktail

A young councillor and licensing chief in a city where a teenager needed an operation to remove her stomach after consuming a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen has said that he has also tried the drink.

Gaby Scanlon, 18, began feeling breathless after having the drink in Oscar’s wine bar during a night out with friends in Lancaster city centre on Thursday.

She developed severe stomach pain and was taken to Lancaster Royal Infirmary at about 11pm.