STOURPORT eight-year-old, Dominic Cooke, had a hair-raising experience with a bottle of shampoo after trying to open it with his mouth.

Firefighters were called out to help the schoolboy, of Hafren Way, and free the lid, which had stuck to his lip while he was in the shower.

His mum, Jo, 36, said: "He appeared at the top of the stairs and I thought he was joking about, trying to get out of having a shower.

"Dominic had used my shampoo instead of his own and he thought the top flipped open but you have to press it down on the one side.

"He must have got his lip caught under the button as he tried to open it."

She and her husband, Jon, spent an hour on Friday evening trying to prise the TRESemm plastic top off with a pair of scissors before taking him to Kidderminster Hospital, where nurses also attempted to dislodge it with ring-cutters.

After they admitted defeat, firefighters from Kidder-minster Fire Station were called out, and they used a large spanner to free Dominic's mouth.

The Stourport First School pupil, who was left with just a small blister on his lip, said: "I couldn't believe I had done it. I wasn't scared. I just felt a bit silly.

"It did hurt at the time but it doesn't hurt any more."

Mrs Cooke added: "I was very scared. I just couldn't see how we were going to get it off.

"It was stuck tight and we were frightened to pull or push it too much in case we hurt him."

The young Chelsea fan, who has earned himself some new nicknames, including Tres and Shams, from his family was no worse for the ordeal and was able to celebrate his 11-year-old sister Jaydee's birthday, while watching England's opening World Cup win against Paraguay the following day.

Mrs Cooke, 36, said: "We do laugh about it now. When we tell people what happened they ask 'Are you joking?' - no-one believes us. He has taken it very well. He won't be using my shampoo again."

Alec Mackie, spokesman for Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue, said it was the first time he had heard of the firefighters being called out to free someone from a bottle cap, adding: "We do get some extraordinary things to do as the fire service, which we do willingly, and this certainly was one of them."