A baby had to be rescued after ending up locked in a car.

The parents had got out of the vehicle and it suddenly locked itself with their seven-week-old daughter still inside.

Firefighters were called out to the scene, at Somerset Road, Cheriton, at 9pm yesterday and freed the child with a specialist car entry kit.

Folkestone Fire Station watch manager John Howard said: “The keys had still been the car when the parents got out. It took us 15 minutes to get her out but she had been asleep throughout and was undisturbed.”