Burglars who broke into the garage of a house in Bradford were stopped in their tracks - by a baby monitor.

The intruders were rooting through the premises in the Bolton area of the city - unaware their whispers were being transmitted back to the owners.

The noise was enough to disturb the couple, who were asleep in the house at the time, and they quickly alerted the police who arrested the culprits at the scene.

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "We were burgled in September and my husband had his motorbike damaged.

"When he went to a car boot sale a couple of weeks later and came back with a baby alarm I thought he'd gone bonkers.

"He explained it was to protect the motorbike and it seems to have worked! We were in bed and heard people talking in the garage."

In May the Telegraph & Argus reported the theft of high performance motorbikes and Eccleshill Police crime reduction officer PC Jez Moore's advice as to how a baby monitor could be used as a cheap way of protecting property.

Today PC Moore said: "It's a simple idea and this incident proves it can be effective."

lTwo youths have been charged in connection with the incident.