One person was freed from a car by firefighters following a crash near a popular Bury St Edmunds pub this afternoon.

The two-vehicle crash happened just before 3pm and near the Spread Eagle pub in Out Westgate in the town, with one car ending up on its side, according to the ambulance service.

Two fire crews, from Bury St Edmunds and Ixworth, joined police and the ambulance service at the scene and extricated one person from their car.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “Two ambulances attended reports of a car on its side in Bury St Edmunds this afternoon. “We treated one man for minor injuries and took him to West Suffolk Hospital for further treatment.”