Careful on the London Tube

A Polish immigrant woman in the U.K who was forced to give birth on the London Underground has revealed how she was sent away from a leading maternity hospital, St. Mary's where both of Diana's princes were delivered.

Julita Kowalska, 26, became the first woman in 84 years giving birth in the subway when her daughter Jennifer was born at Kingsbury, North London, on the evening of December 19 last year.

Earlier that night Julita had been taken by ambulance from her home in North London, to St Mary’s Hospital in West London, but was refused admittance being told not to come back "every time you have pain". Obviously nurses did not think she was in labor.

Julita, who has lived in the UK for 18 months, then walked a quarter of a mile to Paddington station, ran to board a car -- at a transfer point her water broke.

With hundreds of passers-by only the station staff and one young Hungarian man stopped to help Julita on to a bench on the platform. A member of staff called 999 (England's 911) but the ambulance was delayed because the emergency service operator said he "could not find Kingsbury station on our system". It arrived 24 minutes later.