Crowning glory

Trust firefighters to come to the rescue again. In Essex, they came to a boy's rescue after he got his head stuck through a toilet seat.

The two-and-a-half-year-old toddler walked into a fire station with his mum on Tuesday. She said the boy had put his head through a small trainer seat for the toilet and now could not remove it.

"His mum had tried to get it over his head but it couldn't budge. So they came down here and we went to work on it. We put some dish washing liquid on his head and ears and it slid off nice as pie," firefighter Chris Cox said, adding: "The boy was very brave and he toddled away as happy as can be."