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'Reasonable precautions' could have stopped baby deaths

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Leo Lamont , Ellie McCormick and Mira-Belle Bosch all died within hours of birth in Lanarkshire .

Report found deaths could have been avoided had mothers been asked to go to hospital.

The McCormick family said they could "never have imagined" the amount of failures that led to their daughter's death.

"What ought to have been a time of celebration for the parents and families who awaited the births of Leo, Ellie and Mira-Belle , turned to one of sorrow and tragedy." Procurator Fiscal Andy Shanks , who leads on fatalities investigations for the Crown Office , said he hoped the inquiry would give the families "the answers they sought" after "overwhelming loss"..

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English

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