FIRE crews helped release a six-day-old baby locked in a car.

A crew from Lowestoft South fire station was called to London Road South, Lowestoft at 3pm today to reports of a baby locked in a car in Hatfield Car Park.

A spokesman for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said the baby was quickly released using a specialist tool called a Big Easy.

The door was opened with five minutes of crews arriving on scene and the baby was reunited with her parents.

The spokesman said the firefighters had returned to their base station by 3.20pm.