Snowy struggle for mother and sick son

A mother-of-three has told of her "terrifying" struggle through snowy London to take her ill son to hospital.

Suzanne Baum, a writer from Finchley, became concerned about nine-year-old Zack on Saturday morning after he complained of a fever. Within hours he had a temperature of nearly 40 and said that his eyes were hurting.

"He was fading in and out of consciousness and I began to think it could be meningitis," said Mrs Baum.

Frantic calls to her GP and to Charedi ambulance service Hatzola yielded nothing; both were stuck in the snow. She telephoned 999, but the ambulance service said it could not say how long it would be before paramedics could get to her.