TWO people, including a child, had to be given oxygen for smoke inhalation after a television caught alight in a house in Suffolk.

TWO people, including a child, had to be given oxygen for smoke inhalation after a television caught alight in a house in Suffolk.

Firefighters attended the scene in Kingswood Avenue, Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, at 12.35am today to find a television on fire in the lounge.

The room was heavily smoke logged and although there was no one in the property by the time the crews arrived, a man and a young girl at the scene were given oxygen after inhaling some of the smoke.

They extinguished the flames.