A TEENAGER and 12-year-old boy had to be rescued from mud by firefighters last night.

The pair were stuck at Coxlease School in Lyndhurst. 

Firefighters from Lyndhurst and Fareham were called to help free the boys on Clay Hill just after 9pm yesterday.

It is not currently known how the boys, aged 17 and 12, became stuck. A firefighter from Fareham said that on arrival the pair had been freed by Lyndhurst crews and did not appear to be injured.

A spokesman for South Central Ambulance Service said they were called to the scene at 9.13pm.

He said they sent one ambulance to the field behind the school where two young men had become stuck in the mud on their way over to the school building.

He said: “Neither of them were injured but had become very cold so our ambulance crew made sure they had warmed up before leaving the scene.”

A spokesman for Hampshire Fire and Rescue said: “We were called to Coxlease School at 9.10pm last night to extract two males, a 17-year-old and a 12-year-old, from the mud.

"They were both then placed in the care of South Central Ambulance Service. We left the scene at 10.13pm. Crews from Fareham, Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst and Redbridge were called to the scene.”