A Darlington company is launching a line of beds featured in a TV documentary.

The Darlington Bedding Centre, in Victoria Road, is marketing the FreshBed, which is designed to keep people at their optimum temperature while asleep - between 24C and 29C.

The bed, designed by John Statham and his daughter Kate, is featured on the Channel 4 show Make Me a Million, where inventors try to turn their ideas into thriving businesses.

The FreshBed works by blowing air through the mattress, keeping the bed at the right temperature and solving restless nights.

The store's managing director, Stuart Clark, said his shop was the first in the region to sell them