Midwife Carl Allen from Manea is among local NHS staff helping to celebrate the 70th birthday of the health service

A Manea man is among a group of staff from the local NHS trust chosen to help spearhead a campaign to celebrate the health service's 70th birthday.

Midwifery is not the first thought that comes to mind when you think of men working in the NHS but Carl Allen has been delivering babies at the area's hospitals for over five years and loves every minute.

He doesn't keep count of how many new lives he has brought into the world but he estimates it is around 250 with a baby girl born on Wednesday as the latest to arrive under his care.