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'Amazing' Bella's a lifesaver
The Journal
|May 30, 2025
A BRAVE eight-year-old girl from Northumberland has been commended by the North East Ambulance Service after her quick-thinking saved her mum's life.
Bella has now been reunited with the ambulance crew who presented her with a certificate of bravery from the service.
On Wednesday, March 5, young Bella and her sister Sienna, six, were at home with their mum in Blyth when she collapsed in the bathroom.
Despite being very scared, the sisters jumped into action to help her.
After a call with her grandma, Bella made the very important call to 999 and went to her neighbour's house for help as the ambulance crew made their way.
Bella and Sienna's mum came in and out of consciousness as they awaited for the crews to arrive.
Although her memory of the day is patchy, she recalls: "I was home alone with Bella and Sienna when I suddenly felt very strange.
"The next thing I remember is waking up on the floor with my girls crying over me and frantically asking what was wrong.
This story is from the May 30, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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