TWO HEROES saved a man's life after he fell into a lake at Grimethorpe while feeding the ducks.

Paul Fry, 19, and Andrew Melvin, 28, pulled the elderly man from the lake next to Sash Windows UK yesterday after his motorised wheelchair toppled over the edge.

Paul, of St John's Road, Cudworth, said: "My reaction was total impulse to try and get to him and help him and do everything we could."

Andrew, of Doncaster, is a trained lifeguard and jumped straight into the water after another man, who called the emergency services, and a careworker from Dearne Vale Care Home who had been present at the time, struggled to keep the elderly man afloat.

Paul added: "Between us we pulled him out. He was perplexed by it all and I don't think he knew what was going on. He was in shock and very cold.

"If we hadn't have been there the young careworker wouldn't have been able to keep the weight or keep his head above water."

The pair, who work at Wilco Moto Save on Huddersfield Road, were driving back to Barnsley at the time.

Paul said: "We drove round the roundabout and saw the man in the wheelchair and as we came past we saw that he had gone in. We pulled up and jumped out."

He added: "I was shocked about what had happened because there aren't many people down there and it's quiet and discreet."

The man was taken to accident and emergency but was discharged later that day. PC Nash Sharrif, of Cudworth Safer Neighbourhood Team, attended the scene.

He said: "Their actions were remarkable under difficult circumstances and saved this mans life."