Mum Gillian Keighley, 31, woke in the early hours of Sunday morning and went downstairs to find the kitchen on fire at her family home in Birch Grove, Bilton, with black smoke billowing through the house.
She rushed upstairs to her 15-month-old baby girl, Leah Rose, and little boy Kai, five, but couldn't get back down through the thick smoke on her stairs.


Bus 'ban'mix-up over burqas
A BUS company has apologised after a muslim family of nine was stopped from boarding a bus to Leeds.
The Alhajeri family were refused entry onto the Transdev Harrogate and District No 36 bus from Harewood to Leeds on Monday evening, because the mother and eldest daughters were wearing burqas. They had been visiting the house and gardens on holiday from their home country of Kuwait.


Seeking out world's best crime writing festival
INTREPID crime scene investigators of the future got a first-hand insight into the exciting life of detectives and authors this week.
More than 140 children from schools across the district grabbed their magnifying glasses and finger print kits to investigate clues and create stories in the Valley Gardens to coincide with this weekend's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, billed as the biggest in the world.