Tiny tot Hannah Jackson is her daddy's heroine after her life-saving dash showed coolness beyond her five years.

Hannah raced for help from her remote moorland home when her dad Stuart collapsed after picking her up from Oldfield School.

Stuart says he owes his life to his daughter who dialled 999, remembering her keeping-safe lessons at school. She then, under instructions from the ambulance crew, ran to her neighbours for help.

However, the nearest neighbour to their moor-top home at Daisy Mount, Oldfield, is about half a mile away - down a lane, along winding Oldfield road and up another lane to Highfield Farm.

''My daddy collapsed off the bed," says Hannah. "I shouted 'dad, dad,' but he didn't wake up."

She knew exactly what to do next - because she had been told at school. ''I counted to 20, then I rang 999," she says. "I told them my dad had collapsed off the bed. They said go round to the next-door neighbours.

''So I ran to 'Auntie' Pearl's. I ran all the way along the road on the grass. It was a long way.''

Thankfully a stunned Pearl Bransfield was at home. Hannah told her: ''My daddy has collapsed. I think he's dead.''

Pearl jumped in her car and dashed round to Hannah's home. The medics had already arrived and Stuart was regaining consciousness.

''When it was all over I was shaking, realising the enormity of it," Pearl says. "Hannah is amazing, a little heroine."

Stuart, who is now receiving medication and is to see a consultant at Airedale Hospital, says: ''It must have been hellishly frightening for her to see her dad face up on the floor, eyes open and shaking like a leaf. We are so proud of her because she even had the sense to lock the four dogs in the porch so they wouldn't escape on the road before she set off. It is a long way for a little one to run and I think she had cried herself out when she got there.''

Her mum Susan, who was at work at the Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth, says: ''Everyone thinks she is fantastic and we are very proud of her. But I think she is a bit fed up with hearing it now because whenever we talk about it she puts her finger in her ears.''

Now Susan has set up a disaster plan in case it happens again and Hannah has several other numbers to telephone for help.

Hannah is also a heroine at her school where pupils have been learning about heroes and heroines. Head-teacher Maggie Redpath has presented her with an achievement award.

An ambulance service spokesman says: ''Hannah did an excellent job. It shows the value of teaching children how to use the 999 system."

Her parents can feel very proud.''

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