Girl of Three Slips out of Nursery and Walks Home Alone

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WHEN little Sophie Shakespeare found a door open at her nursery just before collection time, she decided to walk the half mile home by herself.

Five minutes later, her mother Ann arrived to pick her up - only to be told by frantic teachers that Sophie was missing.

And as the adventurous threeyearold was crossing two busy main roads notorious for speeding drivers, school staff and a distraught Miss Shakespeare were desperately searching for her.

It was only 20 minutes later, when Sophie's teenage brother Youssef found her in tears banging on the family's front door and phoned his mother, that the search was called off.

'The headteacher rushed me …