TODDLER Jordan Sturdy caused his mum hours of worry when he went to play in a neighbour's house, but forgot to tell his mum.

Hazel Sturdy, 29, of Spencer Street, and 60 friends and police combed the streets of Daneshouse in Burnley searching for the missing three-year-old yesterday.

She said: "We have only just moved to the area and his grandma Pauline Sturdy had gone to collect him from Elm Street Nursery.

"He went out to play in the back garden and when my mum went out 20 minutes later he had vanished.

"I found out when I returned from town at midday and my mum said he was missing. I was very worried and very frightened because I thought someone had taken him away."

Hazel, who has three other children, Jolyne, 10, Wesley, nine, and Toyah, seven, mobilised friends to hunt for little Jordan and called in shops to see if he had been seen.

The police helicopter circled the area, but he was nowhere to be seen.

But two hours later, Jordan walked out of a house on Spencer Street where he had been playing with a neighbour's children.

"I was just so glad to see him safe and well," said Hazel.

She added Jordan has been grounded and told to play in his bedroom in future.

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