A Keighley woman is stepping up her battle to halt the sale of a "dangerous" Christmas tree decoration.

Mrs Judith Brooksbank claims the small metal clip-on candleholder is a potential death trap.

She is calling for a ban on the importation of the product, which is from Germany.

Mrs Brooksbank, of Thwaites Brow Road, was horrified when she saw the decoration on sale at ACW garden centre in Bradford.

Management at the centre claim the 59p product is sold with a safety warning, and that customers are told candles placed in the holder should not be lit.

But Mrs Brooksbank says the items were being sold loose and carried no instructions or warnings.

"It is a terrible fire hazard - if you put a candle in one of these and light it your whole house could go up in flames," she says.

She has taken up the issue with several MPs including Keighley's Ann Cryer.

Mrs Cryer says she sympathises with the points raised and will ask Kim Howells - the government's Consumer Affairs Minister - to investigate.

Bradford North MP Terry Rooney agrees that the decoration sounds dangerous and has pledged to pursue the issue in a bid to get safety rules tightened.

MEP Diana Wallis says the product should carry a warning, but she says an importation ban is unlikely.

She told us: "This decoration has been used in Germany for hundreds of years.

"Clearly the candleholder has to be used safely and there should be some warning, but I do not see any scope for a ban."