Police say a woman found on a pub’s roof from where she was rescued by firefighters had not committed a criminal offence.

Customers alerted staff to the woman, believed to be aged about 25, seen sitting on the roof of the Busfeild Arms in East Morton.

It is understood she could have climbed on to it after scrambling up a tree in the garden of a house next door.

She was eventually brought down at 11.50pm on Saturday using an aerial ladder, which had to be brought in from Bradford.

Pub manager Clive McIntyre said: “She didn’t say a thing while I was there and she didn’t seem to respond to the fire service.

“She was secured to a stretcher and then brought off with the ladder. She was actually lying down asleep when they got to her.”

A police spokesman said: “Officers attended to find a woman, apparently under the influence of alcohol. The woman, who was by this stage unconscious, was brought down safely by firefighters and taken to Airedale Hospital.”