A camper found a way to keep dry while sleeping in the Brecon Beacons - pitching up inside a bus stop.

A camper’s tent was spotted by members of the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team who had been returning from a job to aid three men down from Corn Du who’d become lost after climbing the mountain at night without torches or a compass.

Rescue team leader Mark Jones said they spotted the tent at around 11pm on Wednesday.

"It was pitched up in the bus stop by the Storey Arms side of the road. We were just walking past and I thought I’ve not seen that before.

"We have seen people sleeping in the red phone box before, it’s dry but not very comfortable."

The rescue team tweeted a photograph of the tent, inside the Traw Cymru bus stop, and wrote on its @BreconMRT account "While on call last night we saw an ingenious way of keeping your tent dry in the rain. It also ensures you won’t miss the first bus home!!"

The bus stop is next to the Storey Arms outdoors centre beside the main A470 between Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil. The T4 bus from Newtown to Cardiff runs regularly during the day.

Mr Jones said Wednesday’s call out was the second on successive night the volunteer team had been called to assist a lost walker.

"On Tuesday night we had a call to help a man who’d gone up Pen y Fan and had phoned to say he was lost, then his phone went dead. He did’t have a torch, a map or a compass and was navigating using his phone when the battery went flat.

"On Wednesday three lads had gone up in the dark without a torch, map or compass.

"It probably highlights it’s that time of the year when the nights are drawing in more quickly than people realise and they need to make sure they’ve got appropriate equipment such as a torch and a means of navigation."

Rescuers found the three men on Wednesday, who were all from south Wales, on the path below Corn Du and the man, from the West Midlands, was found at the summit of Corn Du.