The baby who sparked a nationwide appeal after being abandoned on a trolley at West Middlesex Hospital has been reunited with her mum.

The mother came forward last night, just hours after police released a picture of a woman seen wandering about the wards.

The tot, named Jane after the nurse who found her, was discovered on Tuesday at about 8.30pm.

Police refused to comment on the circumstances surrounding the case but a spokesman said both mother and baby are 'doing well'.

Around 60 babies are abandoned every year in the UK, roughly a third of whom are never reunited with their mothers.