Newborn is delivered right to front door... by neighbour's tractor

NEW mum Gracie Ballantine, 31, was snowed in after a blizzard hit the north just as she was ready to give birth.

- BY ELIZABETH HUNTER

Baby Frank and his family are towed back home by a tractor

NEW mum Gracie Ballantine, 31, was snowed in after a blizzard hit the north just as she was ready to give birth.

After a false alarm which saw her and partner Jake travel to Aberdeen for two days, she returned home, where her waters broke almost immediately.

They rushed to nearby Peterhead Maternity Unit, where baby Frank was born.

The couple were desperate to get home from hospital before roads worsened again, but became stuck nearly half-a-mile from their house.

Thankfully, a kind neighbour rescued them, towing the family car back home behind his tractor.

"We never would have made it up that road - the roads were so bad," said Gracie.