A North Wales newspaper was able to bring readers the full dramatic story of a father who helped deliver his own baby, thanks to an in-paper and online combination.

The Evening Leader told the story of Roy Barlow, who delivered his daughter on the bathroom floor at home in Chirk with the help of a telephone call to an ambulance controller, on its front page.

But it was also able to give readers added insight by uploading audio from the dramatic phone call on to its website.

Editor-in-chief Barrie Jones said: "Before, we may have taken a few quotes from the phone conversation, or maybe a transcript of it if we had room, but this is so much better."

The gripping conversation is more than five minutes long and includes the calming voice of David Twigdon Williams talking Roy through the birth.

It ends, emotionally, with baby Millie Megan, safely in the arms of mum, Alison, and paramedics entering the room.

To listen to the call click here

The clip was released by the Welsh Ambulance Service and is being used for training their new recruits.

Barrie said: "There's no other way we could have got across the emotional impact of a live birth, or given justice to the paramedic's dead-pan delivery of the line 'remember, the baby will be slippery – don't drop it!'"

He added: "Everything we publish now is presented on two platforms, print and online.

"This story about the paramedic was printed in the main edition of our newspaper with a clear reference to what was available on our website.

"This generates traffic to our site and offers our readers something a bit extra."