QUICK-thinking 999 operator Yvonne McFadden saved an 83-year-old woman from a life-threatening ordeal.
Police heaped praise on the 28-year-old Blackburn night-shift operator after she answered an emergency call from the woman who had been brutally attacked in her home.
Crimewatch actors helped to recreate an incident in which a police officer was blasted at point blank range as he chased robbers after a raid on a post office van in Burnley.
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