Man, 85, dies in house fire in Kirkstall

An 85-year-old man has died in a house fire in West Yorkshire. Police and the fire service were called to an address in Gilbert Close in the Kirkstall area of Leeds at about at 22:17 GMT. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said firefighters discovered the body of a man, who has not yet been named, inside the property.

The spokesman said the cause of the fire was not being treated as suspicious.