NEW councillor Zoe Barr is believed to have made history by becoming the first member of Wellington Town Council to give birth while in office.

Zoe, who was elected in May to represent Rockwell Green, had given her apologies for not attending the town council’s monthly meeting on August 1. The following day she had a baby boy named Arthur, who weighed in at 7 lb 3 oz and arrived 10 days early.

The birth made her councillor father Marcus Barr, who has served on the town council since 2015, a grandfather for the second time in seven weeks after his son Matthew had a girl named Olivia.