Pick Me Up! Special

Sleep tight

Tipping over the bucket of sand, I helped both my girls tap their spades on the top.

‘Lift it up together,’ I said to Harmony, two, and Libby, 10 months.

'Please save my baby,' I cried

Guiding their hands, we lifted the bucket to reveal the castle inside.

‘Wow, look at what you both did,’ I said proudly, as their little faces lit-up.

It was our second holiday away together that summer and my two girls were loving the seaside.

At the beginning of August, my boyfriend Nathan, 24, and I had taken the girls to Ireland for a week.

A day after returning home, we headed down to Dover with

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