Mum's skydive fundraiser for daughter's lifesavers

Alex Price says it is a miracle her daughter is still alive

A mum is skydiving to raise money for the North West Air Ambulance charity after paramedics saved her three-year-old daughter from drowning last year.

Alex Price, 39, from St Helens, who described her daughter Ayda's survival as a "an absolute miracle", said she was doing the jump as a "thank you" to those who saved her girl in April 2024.

Ayda was placed in an induced coma and flown to Alder Hey hospital, Liverpool, by air ambulance after falling into the water at Thatto Heath, in St Helens, on 6 April 2024.

She was in a critical condition after CPR was performed on her but made a full recovery, Ms Price said.

Ayda, who is autistic and non-verbal, slipped out of her grandmother's home and was found unresponsive in a lake.

"That day, I thought my daughter had been taken from me," said Ms Price, who recently got the chance to thank the paramedics in person.

'Emotional rollercoaster'

She added: "But a whole army of people refused to let her go.

"It was the biggest emotional rollercoaster I have ever been on."

Merseyside Police officers pulled her from the water and began CPR before North West Ambulance Service paramedics and two air ambulance crews arrived to take Ayda to Alder Hey.

Ms Price is hoping the jump will take place, weather permitting, later at the Black Knights Parachure Centre in Cockerham, Lancashire.

She said: "I've decided every single year I will do something for them - next year I will run a marathon."