Rogerstone rescuers pluck two dogs from storm drain

But imagine Jane Jeffrey's shock when she climbed down to rescue Dylan the dog and discovered another four-legged friend who had got stuck.

The drama began on Wednesday at 6am when teaching assistant Mrs Jeffrey was out walking her West Highland Terrier Dylan, along with her 11-year-old daughter Megan through a field in Rogerstone.

Mrs Jeffrey let him off his lead for a run and the next thing she knew, he'd vanished.

Megan and Mrs Jeffery waited and waited for Dylan to return but, having searched for half an hour, couldn’t see any sign of him.

They then heard a distant barking coming from the field. As they headed back, Mrs Jeffery realised the sound was coming from beneath an open manhole cover.

After telling Megan to grab a torch from home, the mum climbed at least six feet down a ladder attached to the manhole, into what she described as either a storm drain or sewer.

With water gushing around her feet, Mrs Jeffery pushed Dylan back through the hole to Megan. But once Mrs Jeffery was back on the surface Megan said she could see another pair of eyes.

Mrs Jeffery climbed down again and found a Lhasapso dog shivering in the water.

She picked him up and quickly took both home for a bath.

“He looked like he was in shock,” she said. “He was soaked and very frightened.”

Mrs Jeffery soon discovered another dog was missing in Rogerstone from someone at her school Mount Pleasant Primary, and after a call to a kennel owner Taighla Williams, 17, was located and reunited with her dog.

The dog, called Chester, was lost in similar circumstances when Taighla and her father Ashley Williams, 45, had been out walking him at 8.30pm Tuesday night.

The family since have bought Dylan a bone, as well as flowers and chocolates to thank the family.

“If it wasn’t for their dog we wouldn’t have found him,” said Mum Sally, 44.

Both dogs are now fine, unscathed following their ordeal.

The open manhole was reported to Newport Council.