A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested in connection with an arson attack at a pensioners home.

Sheila Hardy, 77, was asleep at her Clayton West home in the early hours of Monday morning when the property was set alight.

Police have told how wheelie bins under the kitchen window were set alight and flames them leapt to the property.

Ms Hardy, who wears a hearing aid, was only alerted after neighbours managed to awake her by phone.

The boy has been bailed pending further enquiries.

Any witnesses or anyone with information is still being asked to contact Det Con

Ian Carruthers at Huddersfield CID via 0845 6060606 or Crimestoppers on

0800 555 111.

* This article was clarified on Friday, August 26.