A YOUNG hero's quick thinking saved the life of a drowning boy at a Furness swimming pool.

Eight-year-old Euan Lorne, of Ulverston, was swimming in the pool at the South End Caravan Park at the start of the summer holidays in July.

When Euan saw another young boy in distress, he instinctively sprang into action to save him.

Euan's mum Cheryl Lorne, who was sat beside the pool described what happened.

She said: "I noticed there was a little boy around seven or eight who was playing."

The young boy was with another boy Mrs Lorne believed to be his brother.

"I looked over and the young boy had followed him into the middle of the pool.

"The next thing I saw was Euan with his arms around the boy."

Euan had swam behind the boy, put his arm around him and started to bring him back towards the edge of the pool.

Mrs Lorne said people who she thought were the young boy's parents came over and shouted at her son, believing he was playing too roughly with their son.

She said: "They were shouting at him, he dropped the other boy. He panicked and he fell to the bottom of the pool.

"Euan then went down and pulled him back up."

Mike Mulgrew, owner of the caravan park said: "The swimming pool is a shallow pool, we filled in the deep end a while ago. We make sure that young children are attended by parents when they swim."

For saving the young boy, Euan was praised for his bravery at an assembly at the Sir John Barrow School.

Modest Euan has shied away from the praise, focusing instead on his love of swimming.

He is taking private swimming lessons in the hope of making it onto the Ulverston Otters Swimming Club.

For Mrs Lorne, she is simply proud of her son's quick thinking and heroism.

She said: "I told him that he'd done something amazing. My friend who's a lifeguard in Kendal gave him a badge."

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