A mum whose life was saved as a toddler when she choked on a sweet spoke of her gratitude to the gas man who saved her life.
Bootle mum Stacey Gibney made the front page of the ECHO when she was just two-years-old in 1992.
Under the headline "hugged back to life", the story reported how Stacey's life was saved by Dave Marsh, a worker for the gas board who had come to inspect her parent's meter when she started to choke.
Stacey, now 31-years-old, said: "My mum and dad were living in Croxteth and the gas man had came round to change my mum's meter. That was Dave Marsh, the fella who saved my life.
"My dad's oldest daughter had taken us out to Mrs Rooney's van - Wayne Rooney's Nan - which was on Armill Road I think and bought me jellies and sweets and fruit and stuff.
"And just me being a toddler I think I've just stuffed my face with the sweets when I got back and I started choking.
"The gas man knocked just as my dad was trying his best to get me to breathe but he couldn't so the gas man just came in and hugged me back to life, basically."
The story of how Stacey's young life was saved by Dave Marsh made the front page of the Liverpool Echo on June 2, 1992.
The ECHO reported how Stacey's mum, Margaret, was "frantic" when her choking two-year-old stopped breathing and stopped moving.
It described how Dave "immediately gave Stacey a big hug - squeezing her stomach to force the large turtle-shaped sweet from Stacey's throat."
Stacey's mum, Margaret, said at the time: "I was in a state of shock. I thought she was dead because she was so still, and she seemed to have stopped breathing.
"But the gas man knew what to do straight away and when the ambulance men came they said that if he had not been here Stacey might have died.
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"He was great and I just want to say thank you to him. He saved my daughter's life."
The story goes on to report how Dave visited the family the very next day and brought Stacey "a huge pink and blue cuddly toy to cheer her up," which became her favourite toy.
As an adult, Stacey has never forgotten the man who saved her life that day.
She said: "I put a post on Facebook to see if anyone knew him because it was intriguing me.
"I'm 31 and I've been thinking I wonder how old he would be and I wonder if he's still alive?
"I got a post back from a Rebecca Marsh saying it was her dad and she then forwarded me a photo of a copy of the ECHO he still had.
"I offered to send a gift to her dad, just to say thank you. She said her dad didn't really want anything like that.
"She told me he's just made up I'm alive and that I've got my own family. He just wishes me the best of luck in life and thanks for getting in touch.
"I then thought if I contact the ECHO and it gets published again, his family still have a memory in years to come."
Back in the original story from 1992, gas man Dave was described as a "modest hero".
Dave said he had learned first aid on a three-day-course and insisted that he was "just in the right place at the right time."
Stacey now has two children of her own, Emily 15 and Millie-Jae 10. She is also the guardian of her youngest sister Ruby, 10, after her mum Margaret died in 2016.
Stacey said: "I just wanted to say a massive thank you after he saved my life," adding: "Without him I wouldn't have had my own life or children."
