A PATIENT at the Bowmere Hospital on the Countess of Chester Health Park set fire to their bed last night (Tuesday, March 18).

Quick thinking staff put the fire out at the psychiatric hospital at about 9.30pm yesterday.

A fire service spokesman said: “We inspected only and assisted in clearing the smoke. There were three tenders, two from Chester and one from Ellesmere Port.”

No one was injured and there was no evacuation of the building.