THERE were screams of anguish and joy in an Exbourne pub last Thursday ? and that was even before England had kicked off their World Cup tie against Trinidad and Tobago. At the Red Lion Inn, Michelle Wilson went into labour early in the morning of the crunch tie. Before 90 minutes were out and the midwife and ambulance crews could arrive, baby Jessica May had been delivered on the pub floor. Michelle?s mum Pamela said her future daughter-in-law Kizzy helped deliver the baby using the emergency maternity pack stored in the fridge, which 29-year-old Michelle had been given by her midwife. Pamela said she was getting Michelle?s other children ready for school at about 7am when her daughter woke and felt she was having contractions. Pamela telephoned Michelle?s original birthing partner Kizzy, who lives nearby. The ambulance service were also called to take Michelle to hospital, but by around 8.10am, a little baby girl had already entered the world. Pamela said: ?Kizzy was absolutely brilliant and stayed really calm. ?She doesn?t have any first aid training, but she said in that situation you just have to go with it.? Michelle said: ?Kizzy was rubbing my back and when she saw the baby was about to come, she said ?Don?t panic?. ?She ran upstairs to get a duvet, I couldn?t move at this stage, so she threw the duvet down on the floor. She was wonderful.? Michelle said giving birth on the pub floor had been quite frightening at the time. ?I was quite scared. She was quite blue when she came out and I was worried she wasn?t going to be okay,? she said. Michelle had been due to have a water birth in Okehampton Hospital ?the baby was a day late in arriving. Pamela paid tribute to all the maternity staff as well as the ambulance crew, who arrived just a few minutes after the baby had already been delivered. ?They said, ?This is great, a baby in the morning and England playing in the evening?,? Pamela said. She said she was glad the baby was born when it was, and not during the middle of the game when the pub had been crowded with football fans. Jessica May was Michelle?s fifth child and certainly the one born in the most unusual circumstances. The other children stayed upstairs while the drama unfolded, but luckily Michelle was soon able to share the good news with them. ?It was before they went off to school,? she said. ?So they went off really happy they had a new baby sister.? Mother and baby went to hospital later to be checked up. Jessica May, weighing 7lb 12 and a half ounces had a low temperature initially, but was soon doing fine and was able to return home with Michelle. Pamela, who has run the pub with her husband for five years, said: ?I have never heard anything like it. It was such an amazing experience and Kizzy was absolutely fantastic.? As they were in a pub, did anyone feel like having a drink to celebrate the new arrival? ?No, we were so worn out,? Pamela said. ?It was so unreal.? Michelle lives in Hatherleigh but had been staying at her parents? pub during the final stages of the pregnancy.