At Airedale Hospital on Christmas Day, 29-year-old Emma Witney, of Eldwick, a teacher at Miriam Lord Primary School, in Bradford, gave birth to her first baby, Harry, a son to 28-year-old Andrew.

Michelle Yale, 22, of Emerald Street, Keighley, also had her first baby, a girl — Natalie — a daughter to brewery worker Ryan Taylor. And another first-time mum — and first at Airedale on Christmas morning — was 29-year-old nurse Manju Gopi. Alisha is daughter to care worker dad Sreeji Raveendran, 29.