Three children from the same family in Telford – including a six-year-old boy – have been struck down by suspected swine flu, it emerged today.

Mum Alannah Jones said her main concern now was to stop her youngsters passing on the virus to her 64-year-old father who suffers from a heart condition. Grant Smith, of Newport, has angina and Miss Jones is concerned at the risk.

Miss Jones’s eight-year-old daughter Lydia was the first in the family to show symptoms of swine flu when she was sent home from Stirchley Primary School in Telford last week with a high temperature.

Lydia developed a sore throat, cough, earache and a runny nose but had recovered by the weekend, just as her six-year-old brother Nathanial went down with the same symptoms.

Miss Jones, of Culmington, Stirchley, said her 12-year-old son Aaron, who attends Lord Silkin School, Telford, then went down with suspected swine flu on Tuesday and he is now at home and being treated with Tamiflu.

Nathanial, who also attends Stirchley Primary, is also still recovering at home.

Neither Miss Jones, nor her eldest child Lehanna, 16, have shown any signs of the illness so far.

Under the latest health policy covering swine flu none of the sick youngsters have been swabbed and tested to confirm they have the virus as the country has moved from the containment to treatment phase.

Miss Jones said only Aaron was given Tamiflu as Lydia and Nathanial saw their doctor too late for it to be effective.

She said: “There have been two confirmed cases of swine flu at Stirchley Primary and so that is probably where the children caught it.

“Aaron and Nathanial are still pretty poorly but Lydia is a lot better. She only seemed to be ill for a few days.

“My main concern now is my father suffers from angina and all the information is that swine flu is at its most dangerous in people with underlying health problems. I know that the people who have died from swine flu in this country had other health problems.

“I have had to keep the children in and away from their grandfather because the consequences of the virus could be a lot worse for him.”