Indian Couple Delivers Britain’s First Baby of 2017 

London: An Indian woman in Britain gave birth to the country's first baby of 2017 at 12.01 a.m., just a minute into the New Year, the media reported.

Bharti Devi, 35, gave birth to baby girl Ellina Kumari just seconds after the Big Ben on the Westminster stopped chiming, said a report in the Daily Mail on Monday.

Speaking from her hospital bed, the housewife, who also has a two-year-old son with husband Ashwani Kumar, 26, said: "She is doing well and is healthy."

The mother-of-two arrived at City Hospital in Birmingham on December 31 and was induced later in the evening. The couple is from Handsworth in Birmingham.

Her husband Ashwani, who works as a sales assistant here, added:

--IANS