A two-year-old girl was rescued by the fire brigade after getting her finger stuck in a wall grid by a cash machine.

Davina Phillips, 35, was with her daughter Rebecca when she stopped at an HSBC bank cash machine in Bridge Street, Evesham last Saturday.

As she put her cash card into the machine Rebecca placed her fingers into one of the grids below and her right index finger became lodged.

Passers by rallied round to help, many buying different lotions to help free the finger, then the fire brigade arrived and tried to remove the grid by using a screwdriver, then a saw.

Rebecca's finger was eventually freed when a man lubricated it by squirted baby oil down the top of grid, which trickled down the back to the finger.

Mrs Phillips of Kings Lane, Norton near Evesham said: " It was awful, I wanted to stay calm because Rebecca was so distressed by it and there were tears. She was looking at me, and I was talking to her and saying it will be all right. I was so thankful to everybody in Evesham and I was so moved by everybody's response. I felt that for public awareness I needed to bring it to somebody's attention because I wouldn't want anybody's child to experience that. I think something needs to be done about the grids, it's inviting for children."

Mrs Phillips said she would also like to say a big thank you to a mystery woman who stayed and helped them throughout the 20-minute ordeal.

Catherine Cook, spokeswoman for HSBC said; "HSBC extends its sincere apologies to the customer and her daughter for the pain and inconvenience caused on Saturday. As a gesture of goodwill, the bank will open a savings account for the customer's daughter with an initial deposit of £50, and will be sending a children's hamper and flowers to the young girl and her mother."

She added that a representative from HSBC's property services division was due to visit the Evesham branch on Tuesday to look at the vent and consider what changes could be made so that a similar incident did not occur again.