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Plymouth baby is first to receive life-changing surgery

A Plymouth baby has become the first in the UK to receive life-changing surgery for spina bifida while still in the womb.

Sat with her doting parents and smiling at the camera, eleven week old baby Frankie Lavis, is still totally unaware of the revolutionary operation she had before she was even born.

In May this year, Gina Beddoe, 35, and her partner Dan Lavis, 39, from...