A SCHOOL boy was given two official tickings off after being rescued from a factory roof - too frightened to climb down himself.

The 11-year-old froze with fear after clambering 35 feet on to the roof of a workshop at Stockton's Phoenix Sidings.

A man working in the premises underneath, alerted to the child's plight, offered to bring the youngster down, but he refused to budge.

So, instead the man climbed up on to the roof to reassure the boy - and both were rescued by Cleveland Fire Brigade after the man called down to colleagues.

Fire fighters dressed a small cut to the boy's hand, sustained on the climb up, and gave him a telling off.

A Cleveland Police patrol called to the scene then gave the child a second reprimand.

Fire Station Officer Ralph Nicholson explained: "We gave him a warning and the police came and gave him a warning. If was more for his own safety than anything; more about how daft he was going up there in the first place.''

The youngster told his rescuers he had climbed on to the roof to look for a lost ball.