A 23-year-old woman is due to appear before magistrates in Walsall on Thursday charged with the abduction of a five-month-old girl.

She is accused of taking baby Rhianne Crutchley from a house Tennyson Road, Willenhall, West Midlands on Wednesday morning.

The baby was reunited with her mother Lyndsey Nesbitt, 20, about seven hours later.

Ms Nesbitt, speaking after her reunion with Rhianne, said: "It's the best Christmas present ever to have her back."

Ms Nesbitt, who lives with partner Stuart Crutchley, 22, said she had gone into a "mad panic" when she discovered her daughter had disappeared.

"I just burst into tears. I searched the house high and low but could not find Rhianne anywhere," Ms Nesbitt said.

The 20-year-old mother said she raised the alarm at a neighbour's home after running screaming into the street.

"When I heard Rhianne was all right I was completely overwhelmed with joy," Ms Nesbitt said.

"It was brilliant, like a dream come true. I just could not stop hugging my baby."

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