A SUPERMUM jumped into a fast-flowing river to save her son’s favourite toy rabbit when the wind blew it out of his hands.
Lou Austin was carrying two-year-old son Tommy over a bridge when a sudden gust sent Bun Buns into the water.
As the soft toy was swept downstream, Lou, 27, handed Tommy to his dad, gave her engagement ring to a stranger and left her mobile phone on the side before cannon-balling into the 5ft deep water.
After retrieving Bun Buns, Lou began to sink into the thick sludge on the river bed and her fiancé Richard Harvey had to reach down from the bridge to pull her out.
Lou, from Bridport, Dorset, said she had no choice but to save the toy bunny because her son could not sleep without it.
Speaking after the rescue from the Brit river at West Bay, Lou said: “We had gone for a family meal and were walking back when the wind blew the bunny into the river.
