Heroic teenagers save struggling dog from River Severn in Shrewsbury
A woman whose unfortunate dog was rescued from the River Severn by four good Samaritans wants to sing the praises of his teenage saviours.
Laura Jones and her fun-loving Collie Mono were running by the river through Shrewsbury as they do regularly last Thursday evening, when Mono was suddenly taken by the sight of some ducks near the English Bridge.
Mono, who is 18 months old, got carried away diving in after the ducks and when he tried to get back out of the river, the steep concrete rise proved impossible to climb.
Laura, 40, said: "We ran from home across the Quarry, towards the weir. It's our usual route.
"He saw the ducks and he 'gracefully' went after them. Where he fell in is a big concrete drop down. There was no way he was getting around, he was scrabbling at the concrete.
"I was laying flat on my stomach on the edge trying to reach down and grab him but I couldn't.
"I thought 'he's going to die, I'm not going to get him out'.
