LITTLE Leah Stokes already knows what her unlucky number is . . . it's three.

For the two-year-old was playing with a hammer and shape sorter when her hand got stuck in the toy's number three hole.

Her mum Lyndsey Powell, of Hollycroft Avenue, Darcy Lever, was forced to dial 999 to call firemen to free her.

Leah was playing with sister Amy, aged 18 months, and a neighbour's son,18-month-old Joel Collard, knocking numbers through shapes.

But instead of a shape going through the number three hole, Leah's hand ended up in it.

Mum Lyndsey said: "One minute she was playing nicely, then the next minute she came to me with a toy stuck on her hand. She was very upset and it set all the other children off screaming.

"I couldn't bear to watch her so upset. When the firemen came along it didn't take them long to get it off."