AN Andover mum is warning others to be on their guard using beaded door curtains after her four-year-old daughter nearly han-ged herself when she became entangled in them.

Andover youngster Georgia Robins is recovering from the frightening incident when the fashionable beaded door curtain caught around her neck.

Georgia, of Pilgrims Way, was getting ready for bed on Sunday evening when the tangled beads wrapped around her neck as she walked through her bedroom door.

The curtain lifted her off the floor.

Mum Joanna said that if one of the beads had not broken she could have been strangled.

As it was, the beads grazed Geor-gia's neck and squeezed her windpipe, causing her to have a sore throat and croaky voice.

It took Joanna more than four hours to calm a shocked Georgia after the incident.

Joanna said: "I am angry at myself. I should have thought about what could have happened. The curtain should have a warning sign.

"All day I have thought about what could have happened." Joanna wants to warn other parents before it happens to another child.

She said: "If I had not said anything and I heard that a kid had hung themselves I would never forgive myself." For the full story see Friday's Andover Advertiser