EIGHT-year-old Janette Higginson saved her asthmatic mum's life thanks to watching a video on what to do in an emergency.

Janette, a pupil at Griffin Park Primary School, Blackburn, kept her cool and rang 999 for an ambulance after her mother Carol collapsed in the back yard of their home.

Campaigners were planning a massive public protest against plans to close a hospital maternity ward in Accrington Victoria.