Leanne Lucas helped several children run to safety in last summer's Southport attack, despite having been stabbed five times herself, and is now calling for major change

A heroic dance teacher who survived the Southport attack and managed to help shield others despite being injured herself is urging knife manufacturers to switch to round-ended kitchen blades.

Leanne Lucas started campaigning for the change in the wake of the horrific knife attack which claimed the lives of three little girls in July last year. Leanne, 36, was the first person to dial 999 and was stabbed multiple times as she shielded children from killer Axel Rudakubana's blows.

Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe , seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were murdered, while eight other children and two adults wer

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