By Graham Smith PUBLISHED: 20:15 EST, 7 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:10 EST, 8 June 2012 Tragic: Helen Hipkiss, 39, was working as a teaching assistant in Barrow, Cumbria when she was taken ill A healthy mother-of-two collapsed as she taught at an infants’ school and later died of a brain haemorrhage. Helen Hipkiss, 39, was working as a teaching assistant at Brisbane Park Infant School in Barrow, Cumbria when she was taken ill. Despite the best efforts of the medical team at Furness General Hospital over the next 24 hours, the decision was taken to turn off her life support machine.
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Helen Hipkiss, 39, was working as a teaching assistant at Brisbane Park Infant School in Barrow, Cumbria when she was taken ill
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Helen’s husband, Jason, and their two children, nine-year-old Adam and Yasmin, seven, have been left devastated
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