A man has died in a fall in the centre of Heckmondwike shortly after midnight today.

Police were called to the street at about 12.15am after reports that a man was in difficulties.

When emergency services, including a technical support unit from Cleckheaton fire station arrived, they found the body of the 49-year-old.

The victim was not being named until police have informed his family.

It is being treated as a non-suspicious sudden death and a file will be prepared for the Coroner, said a West Yorkshire police spokesman.