A BOY was taken to hospital after getting his arm caught in a lift door in North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called out shortly before 8pm last night (August 7) after reports of a child injured in Albion Road, Scarborough.

A spokesman for the service said: "Crews from Scarborough responded to reports of a child with his arm trapped in a lift.

"Crews released the child using small tools and the casualty was transported to hospital with a suspected broken arm."