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Police honour girl for 999 heroics

A YOUNGSTER who dialled 999 after her mother fell unconscious was hailed a credit to her family as she picked up a police award for bravery.

BRAVE: Rowan Rychel won an award after an emergency call helped her mother. Picture: Stewart Attwood
BRAVE: Rowan Rychel won an award after an emergency call helped her mother. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Rowan Rychel was a week away from turning two when her mother Francesca fainted suddenly and fell to the floor.

Mrs Rychel hit her head on a cabinet and twisted her leg in the incident at her home in Innerleithen in the Borders in September 2011.

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