A Fareham mum, whose son was saved when an ambulance station officer talked her through artificial resuscitation over the phone, has returned to the station to say thank you.

Pauline Crawford got the fright of her life when she looked in on her two-year-old asthmatic son to find that he has stopped breathing.

Ms Crawford said: "It was the worst day of my life. I was petrified."

But help was at hand, in the form of Tanya Neate, a control response administrator based at Winchester.

While the ambulance rushed to James's home in Woodhall Way, Fareham, Tanya talked Pauline through the life-saving technique. Within minutes he was breathing again and was sitting on the sofa with his mum when the ambulance crew from Gosport's Jellicoe Avenue HQ arrived.

Ann Gilbert, who attended the drama, said: "Luckily Tanya was able to keep mum calm and talk her through it. We are always very worried when children are involved and it was a great relief to hear that he had started breathing as we were rushing to get to him."

Pauline said: "They were all absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't hear a bad word said against the emergency services."

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