A teenager left with a "warzone injury" after falling off her horse says the surgeon who reconstructed her jaw deserves a knighthood.

Emily Eccles, 15, slipped out of the saddle and smashed into a gatepost in August after her ride got spooked by a car exhaust popping near Baslow, Derbyshire.

The GCSE student was horrified when she realised there was just one centimetre of skin keeping her jaw attached to her head and remembers cradling the flesh hanging from her face.

"It was really quite horrific - like something you see in a film," she said. "I just looked down and I could see teeth and bone and said 'is that my jaw?'"

The injury was so severe that the consultant facial reconstructive surgeon treating her said he had only seen comparable wounds in areas of conflict where bombs are exploding.

But Ricardo Mohammed-Ali managed to rebuild her face in a "miraculous" five and a half hour-long operation and she was back at school just a month after the accident.

Ms Eccles, who lives with her parents and brother Sam in Sheffield, said Mr Mohammed-Ali is confident that in a year's time her face will look exactly as it did before her horrendous fall.