Hampshire police officers have been hailed heroes for the saving the life of a woman trapped in a bog in freezing conditions.

With temperatures plunging well below freezing the woman spent more than an hour stuck in the remote bog after becoming stranded while walking her dog.

She raised the alarm with a mobile phone but she was unsure exactly where she was and due to the dark and weather an air support unit could not be launched to help find her.

Officers, PC Mark Leneve and PC Rupert Murray-Twinn were first on the scene to begin the search and were joined by colleague PC Robert Ford from the Dog Support Unit.

Two control room staff, Cheryl Turner and Julia Wheeler, provided timely updates to the officers and the woman, with one of them talking to her on her mobile for well over an hour.

The drama happened on Plantation Common in Wellow.

After negotiating various obstacles and bog conditions the officers tracked the woman down after hearing her shouts.

An ambulance crew attended the scene and took her to Southampton General Hospital for a check up as her core body temperature was close to hypothermic.

The woman, who is from Southampton but has not been named, now made a full recovery.

She said: “The control room staff did a very good job at reassuring me and making sure I kept moving to keep warm.

“It was very nice to see the officers emerging out of the trees and through the bog with their flash lights. I am very grateful to them.”

Sergeant Stephen Parker said: “The staff involved in this incident acted quickly, methodically and professionally and affected a timely rescue of this stranded walker who was about to drop into hypothermia.

“Their actions prevented a potentially fatal occurrence.”