A MAN suffered minor smoke inhalation after he left a lit tealight candle on top of a television and fell asleep.

A crew from Shipley Fire Station were called to a ground floor flat in Rochester Street, Shipley, at just after 3.10am today.

The occupant, a man in his 20s, was woken up by the flat's smoke alarms and the television in the living room was destroyed in the incident.

Jab Khan, watch commander at Shipley Fire Station, said: "He was lucky he had fitting smoke detectors and there was not severe damage to the property."