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Finding the boy I SAVED

It was a warm summer’s afternoon in 1979 when Audrey Mulrooney, then 41, was on her way to visit her daughter in hospital.

‘He was stuck fast, the bars were almost choking him’

She’d just been to a friend’s wedding and was heading to Tynemouth station in North Shields to catch a train when she spotted a little boy in trouble at a turnstile.

‘I ran straight over to him, he was wriggling and crying out for help,’ the retired sewing machinist says.

The boy told Audrey his name was Will and that

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