A QUICK-THINKING three-year-old saved his grandmother’s life after finding her slumped unconscious in her bed.

Nathan-Robert Grant raised the alarm by phoning his mother Claire to tell her he could not get his grandmother to waken up.

The youngster even tried to check diabetic Rosalyn Clark’s blood sugar level by getting her self-testing kit from her handbag and pricking her finger.

As his mother hurried to the house in Aboyne Place, Fraserburgh to help, he dialled 999, then left a message on his mother’s answering service which said “police station.”

Nathan-Robert went ahead despite having been given a severe ticking off last year after he went through a spell of calling the emergency services operator.

His 48-year-old grandmother had become hypoglycaemic, when the body’s sugar level becomes dangerously low. The condition can cause coma, brain damage, and is potentially fatal.

Mrs Grant (27) said, “Nathan-Robert had been staying over with his grandma and in the morning I’d tried calling her home number three times, and then her mobile and couldn’t get any reply.

“Then he phoned me and said he couldn’t get her to wake up. Since he was about 18 months old he’s been able to reel off our home phone number.

“When I was on my way round to my mother’s he must have dialled 999 but then not completed the call because that was the last number on her phone. And when I got home afterwards I discovered he’d left a message on our phone as well.

“He’s a little hero really. Hypoglycaemia can be very dangerous. He’d seen his grandma testing her blood herself and he even tried to do that.

“The thing is, he’d been told about seven months ago not to play with the phone. He’d called 999 about four times, and even asked the operator to come round for a cup of tea once.”

Widow Mrs Clark, who has type 2 diabetes, was taken to Fraserburgh Hospital by ambulance and given orange juice to bring her blood sugar level back to normal.