Mother and three children rescued

Three young children and their mother were rescued from their Oxfordshire home after a fire broke out.

The mother dialled 999 after she was trapped by the flames and separated from her children early on Sunday.

Crews arrived a the three-storey house at Lyndworth Mews in Headington, Oxford, and entered the property.

They rescued the children and their mother who were taken to hospital where they were making a "good recovery". The cause is being investigated.

Station manager David Heycock said: "On arrival there was a crowd of worried residents gathered around the house and a lady was leaning out of the second floor window with smoke drifting around her.

"She was frantic and hysterical and screaming to us that her children were in the building and she couldn't get to them.

"Crews quickly found a scared and confused young boy of about eight years old in the ground floor corridor before two young girls, one two and the other four years old, were handed through the broken door and out of the building."