TWO young girls had the skin burned from their feet as they wandered on to a freshly laid tar path at Branksome Chine.

Sophie Woodley, six, and four-year-old sister Jessica, on holiday in Poole, were rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after the incident.

Dad Robert and wife Hazel, from West Sussex, are now threatening the Borough of Poole with legal action after their beach trip ended in misery.

Clive Smith, the council's head of leisure services, said: "Leisure services staff were on site immediately after this incident occurred.

"A full investigation will be carried out."

Full story in tomorrow's Daily Echo