It was a fairly typical Sunday night for Mark Taylor, 42, when he was asked to pop to his local shop for tea and biscuits. Little did he know that by taking a different route home he would help to save the lives of a mother, child and baby stuck in a burning building.
Mark, a dad-of-three from Little Stoke, was driving through Bush Avenue on Sunday night (April 10) when he noticed a plume of black smoke he thought was a bonfire. As he edged closer, he realised the whole bottom floor of the house was alight.
Within minutes Mark jumped out of his car where a woman had stuck her head out of the top floor window in panic. "I need your help to get the children out," he was told.
