Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids A three-year-old managed to escape from her nursery and walk home alone down a busy main road.
The youngster had been at Flying Start nursery in Romiley, Stockport, when she managed to get out of the grounds close to pick-up time.
When the father arrived to collect his daughter at around 3.20pm, he was told she was missing - something staff say they had been alerted to just moments earlier.
The dad and staff from the nursery, which is a private pre-school in the grounds of Romiley Primary School, continued searching the grounds. READ MORE: Parents blast 'ridiculous' isolation rules as thousands more kids sent home I
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