AN adventurous three-year-old toddler was finally stopped in his tracks when he got his head trapped in the metal bars on his bed.

Matthew Berry, who loves climbing everything and won't sit still for a minute, was found with his head trapped in the head rest by his seven-year-old brother, Ben.

And his frantic mum had to call in the fire brigade after trying in vain to free him.

The two boys had been put to bed by their mother Emma Berry, 30, of Marton Walk, Darwen, around 7.30pm.

And Emma was watching television when Ben came running down the stairs to tell her Matthew had got stuck.

She said: "I thought he couldn't get down from a window sill or something like that.

"I went running up the stairs and Matthew had the back of his head stuck in the head rest. I don't know how he did it."

Matthew had somehow pushed the back of his head, from his hairline to the back of his ears, through an A5 size hole on the metal frame.

Emma found her son sat on the edge of his bed with his head tilted back but was unable to free him.

After trying to pull him out for 15 minutes, she rang her dad Dave Wilkinson, 50, from Blackburn who advised her to ring the fire brigade.

The firefighters lifted Matthew to try to pull him out but in the end they used a hack saw to cut a metal bar to free him.

Emma said: "I asked Ben how it had happened but he said he wasn't in the room but he must have been larking about.

"I asked Matthew and he just shrugged his shoulders.

"I panicked but I think he was oblivious to it all when it happened and how he was freed.

"He was a little bit embarrassed because he wouldn't look at the firefighters.

"But after he was freed he was running around like nothing had happened.

"I will tell him about this when he's older and laugh about it."

A spokesperson for the fire service said: "The boy wasn't distressed, but his bottom lip did start quivering a little when he saw us coming in."