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'Beautiful' ballet dancer, 25, dies after eating mislabelled cookie from supermarket

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A ballet dancer from Lancashire has died in the US after eating a cookie from a supermarket which reportedly did not say it contained peanuts.

Órla Baxendale died from anaphylactic shock after suffering a severe allergic reaction to a vanilla florentine cookie from supermarket chain Stew Leonard's, the Mirror reports.

The 25-year-old had eaten the cookie - not knowing it contained the nuts - at a social gathering in Connecticut and her EpiPen was unable to save her.

She tragically died on January 11. In a statement on Sky News, Ms Baxendale's family described her as 'truly one of a kind' and as a 'beautiful, radiant and brave soul'. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. She had moved from Helmshore, near Rawtentstall in east Lancashire, to New York City in 2018 to pursue a career in dancing.

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