A KIND-HEARTED stranger helped a dad meet his daughter after she had to fly home from Sweden early.

David Frost, from Thrupp, went to meet his daughter, Tallulah, at Gatwick Airport but his car broke down in Chalford after he filled the tank with unleaded petrol in a diesel car.

His daughter was on a ten-day yoga retreat, but decided to come home after the second day.

After calling roadside rescue, he feared he would miss the incoming flight as he was told it would take several hours for the car to be towed away.

Seeing Mr Frost in need of help, the driver of a black Range Rover, whose first name was Paul, offered to lend him a Land Rover Discovery he was not using.

"Having towed me home to Thrupp he drove me back to his house to pick up the Discovery and said he had learned about 'doing the right thing' when he bought his Chalford house some years ago," said Mr Frost, a psychotherapist.

"The day before he and his wife moved in, there had been a flood downstairs.

"All the neighbours had rallied round in an amazingly generous way, moving furniture, making meals and supplying cups of tea for the firefighters, and it had been a wonderful way to join their local community. He was passing on that goodwill."

After borrowing the Discovery, Mr Frost went to meet his daughter in Reading.

He thanked Paul by baking him a cake and refunding him for the petrol, and says they will stay in touch.