A six-year-old girl had part of finger cut off after it became entangled with the string of a yo-yo.

Charlotte Allerton, of Littlethorpe Hill, Hartshead, Liversedge, had wrapped the loop of the toy round her right index finger as she was playing on a slide in a neighbour's garden.

As she slid down the yo-yo got caught at the top, ripping one centimetre from her fingertip.

After the freak accident Charlotte's quick-thinking mother Mavis grabbed a bag of frozen peas to try to stem the flow of blood with the help her two other daughers, Ruth, 18, and Jodie, 16.

Charlotte, a pupil at Hartshead Junior and Infants School, was rushed to St James' Hospital in Leeds where surgeons were unable to sew back the missing piece.

Yesterday the youngster returned to the hospital to undergo further treatment.

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