A BOY who helped rescue his best friend after he plunged down a 35ft ravine has taken part in a TV reconstruction.

Joseph St Ledger, 12, of Bottoms Row, Cowpe, raced to get help when Daniel Bennett, 13, of Kirk View, Waterfoot, tumbled down the drop.

Daniel suffered a broken collarbone and underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain after the accident in June last year.

Just weeks after the incident, Daniel was at home recovering from the accident. Doctors hailed his fightback as a miracle and the youngster is now looking forward to seeing himself on the hit BBC1 series Against All Odds.

Film crews were in Waterfoot, close to The Glen, off Bacup Road, on Monday and yesterday to re-create the terrifying accident.

Daniel, in year eight at Fearns County High School, Stacksteads, was rescued by Rossendale Search and Rescue team, which helped pull him from the ravine using ropes, along with ambulance crew, firefighters, police, air ambulance crew and local doctors.

The air ambulance took Daniel to Royal Preston Hospital to be treated for his injuries and landed in Waterfoot again yesterday afternoon to stage the rescue for the cameras.

Daniel's grandmother Margaret Bennett, of Park Road, Waterfoot, said she can't believe how quickly he recovered.

She said: "We didn't know if he was going to end up in a wheelchair or even worse but he amazed everybody with how quickly he managed to get over the accident. He was really looking forward to the filming to see all the cameras."

Daniel's mum Heather, said: "Daniel didn't want to re-enact what happened because it would have been too traumatising for him so instead he was interviewed and talked about what happened on the programme."

Daniel added: "I have been back to the spot where I fell twice. It is quite frightening to think that I fell so far."

Joseph said: "I remember it like it was yesterday."

The programme will be shown a year on from the accident in June.