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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

RARE PHOTOS: British dancer dies in us after eating mislabelled biscuit containing peanuts | Rare Historical Photos

Órla Baxendale
Órla Baxendale’s family said she had ‘danced her way across the world’, having moved to New York to pursue her career. Photograph: Family handout

Tributes have been paid to a dancer from Lancashire who moved to the US and died after eating a biscuit that contained peanuts.

Órla Baxendale, 25, had a peanut allergy. She died on 11 January after going into anaphylactic shock caused by the mislabelled vanilla florentine cookie she ate.

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