Boy abandoned in mix-up

A five-year-old boy was reunited with his parents yesterday after they accidentally left him at a petrol station.

The couple drove off separately from the Tesco's garage in Dunmow, Essex without realising that their son, Kyle Collins, had gone off to buy some sweets. The boy had slipped out of Mrs Collins' car while she paid for petrol, and when she returned she presumed he had got in her husband's car which had already left. The couple, from Elsenham, drove for more than hour before they heard a police appeal on BBC Radio Essex alerting them to the situation.