A woman was left with more than 30 red and itchy bites on her body after staying in a hotel room infested with bed bugs.

Sharon Aggarwal, 53, shut herself in the bathroom for two hours after she woke up in the middle of the night 'scratching' at a three-star hotel in Henley-on-Thames.

The IT worker, who frequently travels to the picturesque town in Oxfordshire for work, said she pulled back the sheet and could see several bugs 'crawling on the bed'.

Mrs Aggarwal said she squashed a large one on the pillow and was horrified to see blood spurt out of it.

The 53-year-old from the Midlands was staying at The Catherine Wheel last month - a historic 12th century pub and guesthouse that is now owned by JD Wetherspoon.