A YOUNGSTER is trying to find the hero refuse worker who pulled her from a ditch full of stinging nettles and safely took her to school.

Eleanor Brady. 11, fell from her scooter while travelling to breakfast club at Copford Primary School after she hit a stone with her front wheel.

Her dad David said: “It caused her to fall over the top of her scooter landing on her knees and then rolling into a 4ft deep ditch full of stunning nettles.

“She was in lots of pain and crying but within a couple of minutes a man in day-glow clothing was climbing down into the ditch and first checked if she was OK to move and picked her up and carried her to the school in his arms.

“She was crying a lot and quite clearly in pain, he reassured her.

“Once she was safely with the headmaster David Bome, he went back to retrieve her scooter from the ditch and brought it to her in the school.”

The incident happened about 500 metres from the school on Tuesday April 30 at about 7.30am.

Mr Brady added: “Eleanor is a keen swimmer and swims for the Stanway Swimming Club and also a very keen gymnast.thinks he deserves a medal and wanted to find him to say thank you.He is a hero in our eyes. Not many people these days would have even stopped.”