'I'm out on a limb... my 10-year-old granddaughter literally did save my life'

A schoolgirl saved her grandmother after she had been suffering with mysterious 'dizzy spells'. Connie Burslem, from Monton, Salford, learned about carbon monoxide (CO) during a workshop at her school, St Mary’s RC Primary in Eccles.

Classmates were given CO alarms and as Connie had two already at her home, she gave it to her 79-year-old 'Nanna' Pauline, from Cadishead. Two days later, the alarm went off.

Pauline thought it might have been faulty at first but after calling out gas distribution company Cadent, it was discovered she had a CO leak from her cooker. “If she hadn’t gone to the Crucial Crew workshop, and she hadn’t got the alarm and she hadn’t given it to me, then who knows?” Pauline said.

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“I’m out on a limb here... and nobody has any need to come here. If I hadn’t had the alarm, the Cadent man said to me, ‘You’d have probably become more sleepy and you could have easily just gone to sleep’.

“I thought, if that was a Friday night, nobody would know or think about it until Monday, and then you’d be dead. She literally did save my life.”

Connie, aged 10 at the time, attended a Crucial Crew workshop at her school in March - where she learned about police, transport, antisocial and illegal behaviour, as well as carbon monoxide. Pauline had already been experiencing headaches and 'dizzy spells' at that time - almost causing her to fall over.

“One day, when I went to pick Connie up from school, I was walking along the pavement and I was veering right into the wall and I could not stop myself,” Pauline said. “I thought, ‘What is going on?'”

She visited her GP, who could not give her a conclusive diagnosis. After calling the hospital,