A schoolgirl was hailed as a hero after she saved her grandad's life.
Evie Tierney was just seven-years-old when she put her grandad into the recovery position when he had a serious stroke in February last year.
Evie, now eight, was staying at her grandad's house for the night when he suddenly collapsed.
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Evie rang her mum, then 999 and managed to get him into the recovery position and make sure he didn't swallow his tongue until paramedics arrived.
Without the instinctive actions of the little girl, from Netherton, her mum, Chantelle Tierney, doesn't think he would still be alive.
Speaking to the ECHO, the 31-year-old mum-of-three said she couldn't believe how Evie reacted and thinks it could have ended more seriously for her dad, George Tierney, had she not been there.
Chantelle said: "My dad was such an active man. He used to do everything for me and my kids, and I mean everything. One night Evie was staying with him and she called me about 8pm saying 'something's happened to grandad he can't move'.
"Then I heard him in the background making a horrible noise and she said 'mummy, I'm going to phone an ambulance'. Then she put the phone down.
"When I got there she was on the phone to the ambulance, she was only seven. When I got in he was in a state I can't describe, it was almost like he was melting into the floor.
"How she even looked at him and held it together is unbelievable. She not only did that, she had him on his side in the recovery position and she was pulling his tongue out of his mouth so he wouldn't choke.
"I couldn't believe it. When the paramedics got there they even said without Evie being there he wouldn't be alive.
"They said normally, in situations like that, little children panic and don't know what to do but with Evie, I don't know what it was but it all kicked in and she just did everything she could."
One year on from the stroke, the 66-year-old grandad now needs Chantelle to care for him and her children in a full-time capacity.
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