A coroner has called on parents to stop sharing a bed with their young children following the death of a five-month-old girl.

A Bradford inquest heard yesterday how Payton Armstrong stopped breathing as she lay in bed between her parents at their Keighley home last December.

Despite efforts to revive her, she died from asphyxia, following the tragic incident at her home in West Lane.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, Coroner Roger Whittaker said parents should stop sharing beds with their children to avoid other tragedies and added that in such situations, there was a danger of 'overlaying'.

The inquest heard how the child's mother Margaret Phelan and her partner Wayne Armstrong dropped off their two children at a babysitter and had a couple of drinks in Keighley on December 9 last year.

After picking up both children, they returned home and placed Payton in the bed between two pillows before going to sleep at about 10.30pm.

But three hours later, Mr Armstrong woke up and noticed that Payton was cold. An ambulance was called while the girl's mother gave her resuscitation, but the youngster was certified dead, despite further efforts to revive her at Airedale General Hospital.