Woman walked out of hospital with her newborn daughter after a woman's body is found - but no sign of her child

              Police are desperately searching for a missing newborn baby girl today after her mother was found dead in a gorge last night.

Charlotte Bevan, 30, walked out of the Bristol Maternity Hospital wearing thin hospital slippers and no coat, with her daughter wrapped in just a blanket at 9pm on Tuesday.

CCTV footage showed Miss Bevan clutching four-day-old Zaani Tiana as she calmly walked off the postnatal ward, past at least four nurses and out of the hospital unchallenged.

Last night a walker found some belongings at the top of the Avon Gorge and a police helicopter found a body below the Clifton Suspension Bridge, but did not find a baby.

Charlotte's family helped identify her today as search teams were combing the area for signs of the missing newborn, who may have been out in near-freezing conditions since Tuesday night.