A 10-week-old baby with a heart problem, who fell ill during a flight from Liverpool to Dubai, was saved by a doctor who improvised by mixing flat lemonade and mineral water to rehydrate her.

Steve Green, from the Royal Hallamshire hospital, Sheffield, travelling to a conference on tropical diseases, then used bottles of oxygen to stabilise the child.

"The little girl was very sick, she had a heart problem, but the family didn't know," said Dr Green, who found the emergency equipment on board was too large to use on the baby.

The baby was taken to a hospital in Dubai.