A YOUNG boy was rushed to Musgrove Park Hospital via air ambulance on Saturday after suffering a possible cardiac arrest. 

South Western Ambulance Service (SWAST) were called at 1.56pm on Saturday February 18 to reports of a young child suffering from a possible cardiac arrest on Parsons Road in Highbridge. 

An air ambulance landed at Apex Park at around 2.30pm to help the child. 

A spokesman for SWAST said: "We were called at 1.56pm to Parson Road to reports of a male child suffering from a possible cardiac arrest. 

"We attended with an ambulance, a rapid response car and an air ambulance was also in attendance. 

"The patient was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton by air ambulance."