Firefighters were called to tackle a blaze at a house in Ipswich earlier this evening.

Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service received reports of the fire in the front room of a two-storey property in Wilberforce Street shortly after 7.30pm.

Fire crews from Princes Street and Ipswich East stations fought the 7m x 7m fire in the front room and extinguished the flames by just after 8.05pm.