THE drugged-up mum who left her three young children inside a car in searing temperatures of 104F avoided prison yesterday.

Kelly Langham, 26, abandoned her daughters, two, five and eight, for 45 minutes while she went to Cash Converters after taking amphetamines.

She admitted neglect and got a ­rehabilitation order. Carlisle magistrates' chairman of the bench Sally Metcalfe Gibson said: "It's a serious crime."