MP helps deliver lambs

A COUNTRY walk turned into a veterinary drama for Oxfordshire MP David Cameron - when he helped deliver two baby lambs.

The Witney MP and Tory leader, who was out for a walk with his wife Samantha and their three children near his Chadlington home, rolled up his sleeves and mucked in to help farmer Julian Tustian who was struggling with a distressed ewe which was about to give birth.

In scenes reminiscent of an episode from All Creatures Great and Small, Mr Cameron, 41, got down on his knees in the stable in Dean, and held down the pregnant ewe for 15 minutes.

After the two lambs were delivered on Friday, Mr Cameron took his three-year-old daughter Nancy to see the new-born animals.

Mr Tustian, 39, said: "He was literally passing by and said he would come over and show Nancy the new born lambs.