Boy reunited after mix-up

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

They drove off separately from the garage in Dunmow, Essex, without realising their son, Kyle Collins, had gone to buy sweets. He 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. The couple, of Elsenham, drove for an hour before hearing a police appeal on the radio.