A FRANTIC father chased his car as it rolled down a steep hill with his three children inside.

Tony Sugden and his wife Toni of Dukes Brow, Blackburn, had just put his children in the car when the handbrake failed.

All three escaped unharmed.

Elderly brothers Eric and Jack Pollard were helping unearth the historical roots of a secret garden at Clayton Hall in Clayton-le-Moors.