An alert 15-year-old boy has been hailed a hero for saving the life of an 89-year-old woman after he noticed that she hadn’t collected her papers for three days. Liam Apps was completing his paper round before school when he noticed papers from the last three days were still stacked at the elderly woman’s doormat. Worried, the teenager told his mom about it after he finished school. The mom-son duo then solicited help from neighbors and together they broke into the property. “[We] went round the back of the house and knocked on the window,” Liam said. “At first we had no response but then there was a voice that shouted they couldn’t get off the floor.” The quick-thinking youngster then dialed 999 and asked for an ambulance while his mother, Katie, and the neighbors broke down the back door. Liam said: “At first we couldn’t see where she was but after …