A 15-MONTH-OLD boy hugged his father for the first time since he was left paralysed in a holiday accident and said: "Get well soon daddy."

Young Brandon Wood has been without his father Adam for weeks after he fell into a fountain and was seriously injured in Ibiza.

Adam, 20, was left unable to move from the waist down after the accident, in San Antonio, just hours after arriving on holiday with friends from his local pub on July 25.

The self-employed bricklayer, of Lime Road, Haslingden, was unable to return home as he did not have full travel insurance to pay for an air ambulance.

But family and friends rallied round and raised £10,000 for a flight and he finally touched down at Manchester Airport at about 10pm on Wednesday.

Speaking from his bed at Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital after the pair were reunited, Adam said: "I just wanted to see my son.

"It was boring in hospital so it was great when I saw him.

"It is better to be back in England.

"I can't feel my legs. I can use my arms, but I have limited use of my fingers.

"I am so happy people made the effort to bring me back. I want to thank all of them."

Adam said he could not remember the fall, at 6.30am, but said he had only drunk a couple of beers and was not drunk.

It is not yet known how much he will recover. He said: "The last thing I remember was being in a club. It is one of those things. It is just bad luck."

Adam's family remain optimistic about his recovery. They said doctors in Ibiza told him he could be paralysed from the neck down when he was first admitted, but he then regained use of his arms.

Adam damaged two vertebrae in the fall and suffered from pneumonia and a collapsed lung in hospital.

He had gone on holiday with Brandon, the youngster's mum Carly Short, 20, and regulars from the Crown pub, Haslingden.

Adam's mum, Jeanette, 45, is by her son's bedside.

She said: "It was very emotional when he got to see Brandon again. He didn't know if he would recognise him, but he did."

The first step to Adam's recovery was to get him off ventilation support, she said, so he can undergo physiotherapy.

She said: "He knows what he has to do. He is determined to do it for the sake of his son. We have to cross each bridge as we come to it.

"It has been quite a harrowing experience for him, being in another country. We had the added stress of raising the money to get him home.

"Adam was looking forward to going. It was the first holiday with his son.

"He has brightened up a bit since he knew he was coming home.

"You see stories about people suffering accidents in the paper, but you don't relate to them until they happen to you. It is devastating really. It affects more than the person it has happened to.

"The people he was with didn't see anything. They just heard a big splash and saw him in the water."