A PLUCKY teenager emerged as the shy hero who rescued a woman from her blazing house.

Anthony Height, 13, dragged mother-of-five Christine Carslaw from her home in Stanley Street, Accrington, where she had collapsed unconscious.

He quietly left the scene without claiming credit for his quick-thinking actions.

Mrs Carslaw was allowed home from hospital after treatment for the effects of smoke.

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