A workshop containing cars and scrap commercial tyres has been hit by fire.

The blaze was reported in Green Lane, Red Lodge, near Mildenhall, at 9.38pm.

A fire crew from Mildenhall were joined at the scene by another engine and a water carrier from Newmarket.

The workshop, measuring about six metres by 10 metres, and containing cars and scrap commercial tyres, was well alight at one point but firefighters were able to bring the flames under control by 10.50pm.