Boy 'gets head stuck in toilet seat'

Firefighters in Essex have freed an 18-month-old boy who got his head stuck in a training toilet seat.

The team had to use specialist cutting equipment to remove the seat from the unnamed child last Friday, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service reports.

Leading Firefighter Steve Seary said: "He had been wearing the training toilet seat as a hat and his mum turned her back and then he slipped it down over his ears and it was stuck.

"It was around his neck, but it wasn't tight or causing him any difficulties... The boy was really brave and sat still so we could work. He seemed just fine afterwards and we were happy to see him free of his toilet seat."

Firefighters used a hand-pump powered pedal cutter to free the boy.