Spice Girl Mel C has a baby girl

Mel C was still performing a month before she gave birth

Former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm has had a "beautiful little girl" with her partner Thomas Starr, according to a message on her official website.

Scarlet Starr arrived on Sunday afternoon, weighing 8lb 3oz. Both mother and daughter "are doing fine".

Chisholm, labelled Sporty Spice in her Girl Power days, is the last of the Spice Girls to become a mother.

Mel B has two daughters, Victoria Beckham three sons, Geri Halliwell has one daughter and Emma Bunton a son.

Chisholm has arguably had the most successful solo musical career of any of the Spice Girls.

She has released four albums, and scored two number ones in 2000 with I Turn To You and Never Be The Same Again.

Thanks to a duet with Bryan Adams, When You're Gone, and the two incarnations of the Spice Girls, she is the only female artist to hit number one as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist.

Announcing her pregnancy last August, Chisholm said she would "need to take some time off to be a mum but, before you know it, we'll be back" with a fifth album.