At 12:50am on Wednesday 29 April, police attended a serious fire in flats on North Lane, off Thanet Road, in Dringhouses, York.

The emergency services were alerted by a call from a member of the public. The flats were evacuated however a man in his thirties was taken to York District Hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead.

The police and fire services are making enquiries to establish the cause of the fire, which is at this time unexplained.

Anyone who has information related to the fire is asked to contact police to assist enquiries. Dial 101, press option 2 and ask for York CID, quoting ref NYP-29042015-0013.