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The Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne Picture: North News & Pictures A PAEDIATRIC nurse has been struck off after she was caught on CCTV swigging bottles of painkillers she stole from a children’s ward. Whilst working at Royal Victoria Infirmary, in Newcastle, Laura Catherine Cooper, from Middlesbrough, was filmed consuming liquid codeine. She also later confessed to consuming liquid morphine, oramorph while on shift. Following an investigation by the Nursing And Midwifery Council (NMC), she has now been removed from the nursing register. The NMC panel said: “The charges arose whilst you were employed as a registered nurse on the children’s paediatric ward at the Royal Victoria Infirmary Hospital by The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.