Friday 1 July 2022 12:42 AM This bun's a keeper! Mother jumps into river to save her son's favourite bunny ... trends now
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A mother jumped into a fast-flowing river to save her son's favourite toy rabbit after the wind blew it out of his hands.
Lou Austin was carrying her two-year-old son, Tommy, over a bridge when a sudden gust tossed Bun Buns the rabbit into the water below.
As the toy was swept downstream Lou, 27, handed Tommy to his father, gave her engagement ring to a stranger and left her mobile phone on the side before 'cannon-balling' into the 5ft deep water.
She waded 200ft up to her neck to reach Bun Buns and at one point began to sink into the thick sludge on the river bed.
Her fiance Richard Harvey had to reach down from the 4ft high bridge and pull her out.
Lou, from Bridport, Dorset, said she had 'no choice' but to save the toy bunny because her son cannot sleep without it.
