An NHS nurse died just hours after giving birth to a baby girl, her heartbroken fiancé has revealed. Tragic Shannon Napier, 24, was described as "beautiful", "intelligent" and "one in a million" in an emotional tribute from her partner Jordan Burt, who now faces raising their daughter, Abbie, alone.
Mr Burt, from Kirkcaldy, Fife, told of his grief on a day when they should have been celebrating their new life as a family and their 11th anniversary as a couple.
Ms Napier's cause of death has not yet been confirmed, but it is believed she had suffered complications while giving birth, Edinburgh Live reports.
Mr Burt, a sports journalist, now plans to give her "the biggest round of applause" on Thursday night when Britain claps for its