A generous mum has been praised for a kind-hearted gesture to ensure rude strangers failed to ruin a young family's trip to the theatre.
Good samaritan Emily Burke, 32, stepped in after seeing Noor Stevens and her three children leave Beauty and the Beast at the interval.
Teesside Live reports how Noor, 35, said her daughter Scarlett, eight, was singing and dancing along with the show and her four-year-old son Declan had opened a bottle of fizzy juice which had exploded.