A mother is claiming £1.2m damages after her baby was allegedly left brain damaged when doctors gave her too much medication during labour.

Laura Anne Smith was left severely disabled after her mother, Jane Brown, then aged 18, was given too much of a drug to induce labour.

Miss Brown was admitted to Newcastle General Hospital with pre-eclampsia - a life threatening condition in pregnancy - in June 1990.

Her barrister Robert Francis QC told Newcastle High Court the drug dosage should have decreased when a chart showed it had actually increased.

Miss Brown, from Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, has launched a claim for negligence against Newcastle Health Authority for £1.2m. The case continues.