A WOMAN has been rushed to hospital with burns after a firework was thrown into a pub in Halifax.

The 37-year-old was in the Big 6 Inn on Horsfall Street when youths hurled the lit firework into the pub just after 7.30pm on Thursday.

Firefighters from Halifax and Illingworth were called to the pub but found the firework had burnt out by the time they got there.

A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the woman suffered burns to her face and leg and was taken to Calderdale Royal Hospital.