For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Sitting alone in the hospital waiting room covered in blood, Nicky Bass waited for doctors to tell her what she already suspected - that she had lost her unborn baby.
Minutes earlier the 28-year-old had said an emotional goodbye to her partner as he dropped her outside the Emergency Department at Bolton Royal Hospital.
She was terrified about what was to come. As doctors told Nicky she had suffered a miscarriage, and that she may need surgery to remove her unborn baby, she had no familiar face to share her grief with.
Under Covid-19 restrictions in the first months of the pandemic, thousands of women had to attend scans and appointments alone due