A pregnant mother saved her baby from a burning bed today.

Lindsay White, who is six months pregnant with twins, rushed into her baby son's bedroom and snatched him from the blaze after her other children raised the alarm.

After Mrs White, 28, and her husband Dave, 31, got their five children out of the house in Sandholme Drive, Thorpe Edge, Mr White then rushed back into the house with neighbour Stephen Kelly to throw the burning mattress from a window.

Mr White, who was awoken at 7.15am by his children, said when he looked into the bedroom his baby son was surrounded by flames. He said: "I was petrified and panicked. I didn't know what to do.

"My wife grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and got him out, then we got all of the kids out of the house. "We were very lucky. My wife was very brave."

Seven-month-old Ben suffered burns to his stomach, leg and fingers in the fire and was today being treated in Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Mrs White was also detained in hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. Mr White and his children Marc, nine, Matthew, five, Gavin, three and Simone, ten, escaped unhurt.

Mr White, who has lived in the house with his family for three months, managed to smother the fire with blankets before firefighters arrived.

The fire had spread from curtains which had fallen on to the bed and floor.

Fire investigators were looking into the cause of the blaze, thought to have been started by one of the children playing with a cigarette lighter or by an electrical fault.

Meanwhile, smoke from a smouldering mattress badly damaged a bedsit in Cliffe Terrace., Baildon, last night.

Firefighters were called at 10.30pm after a resident from another flat saw smoke coming from the room.

Shipley fire station officer Stephen Nunn said the horsehair mattress had been smouldering for hours after a cigarette was left on it when the occupant went out for the night.

He said: "If the flat had not had such a good door this could have injured or killed other people in the house."

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