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Baby raises alarm by answering phone

An 11-month-old baby raised the alarm when her mother collapsed unconscious.

Amelia Boyle picked up her mother's mobile phone when her grandmother Linda Wright rang - moments after her mother Elizabeth blacked out on the floor.

Mrs Wright listened as Amelia repeatedly said "who's that?" and "mamma" into the receiver. She called her daughter's landline and when it rang out, phoned 999.

Miss Boyle, 20, began fainting and having fits 18 months ago although doctors have been unable to work out why. "Millie was crawling around playing with some toys when I suddenly fainted between the hallway and the living room, blocking the stairway," she said. When she came round, ambulance crews were at her home, in Braintree, Essex. She did not need hospital treatment.

"It could have been a lot worse - I could have hit my head and been injured. Millie does not seem to be fazed by it. She must have watched me open the phone - she is not allowed to play with it because she tends to stick it in her mouth."

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