Always take your phone to the bathroom.

That is the moral of the tale about a man from Ashford who found himself trapped in his own bathroom today.

Fire crews were called to Poppy Mead, in Park Farm, at 2.45pm after the stuck man called them from his mobile.

He became trapped in the room on the first floor of his house after the lock broke.

Crews used a ladder to access an open window and used tools to open the bathroom door.

Watch manager Tim Hanley said: "We entered the house through an open window on the first floor.

"The bathroom lock was faulty.

"He wasn't in there long.

"It is a good job he had the phone on him really, or he could still be stuck now!

"I think he saw the funny side."