The body of a new-born baby has been found by a busy road.

Police in Derbyshire said the child was found dead on Wednesday morning by a motorist near a lay-by on the A628, close to the village of Woodhead.

Detectives say they are concerned for the welfare of the mother and have appealed for her to contact them.

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Geri has the best legs - official

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has beaten off competition from her former colleagues to win the 1999 Nair Best Legs Award.

Judges from Nair, who manufacture depilatory products, chose the former Ginger Spice's pins ahead of Victoria Beckham, Melanie Gulzar, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Geri puts her legs down to a healthy diet and a daily yoga workout.

Tom Cruise, who flashed his hamstrings in the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut, won the men's award ahead of footballers David Beckham and David Ginola, singer Robbie Williams and actors Ewan McGregor and Ben Affleck.

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BBC runs drink-drive ad

The BBC is giving coverage to a millennium anti drink-drive advertisement.

It features Mike and Joy Jobbins, who lost their 25-year-old daughter Michelle in a drink-drive accident six years ago, in an attempt to bring home the tragic consequences of drinking and driving.

The "simulcast" will also be shown on several other television channels, terrestrial and satellite, at 1957 GMT.

It shows Mr and Mrs Jobbins, from Thornbury, near Bristol, standing in their front room speaking of their grief.

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Police probe teenager's death

Police are investigating the death of a teenager who was found injured at a railway station.

He died on Tuesday at Joyce Green Hospital in Dartford, where he had been taken with two other injured men.

They were found at Gravesend Station in Kent by police officers called to the scene following reports of a disturbance.

A Kent Police spokesman said: "It is very early days but we are treating the death as suspicious. We have yet to speak to a large number of witnesses."