Arsonists started a fire in a toilet block in Ipswich, the fire service has claimed.

Firefighters from Ipswich East and Princes Street were called to reports of a fire in the toilet block next to the pavilion in Dumbarton Road just before 12 noon.

Crews arrived to find paper had been removed from a nearby waste paper band and set alight inside the toilets.

“The incident was of deliberate ignition and Suffolk police have been informed,” a spokesman said,