The emergency services were called to a large house fire on the outskirts of Norwich that took more than an hour to put out.

Fire crews were alerted at 7.57am to the incident in Tracey Road, Thorpe St Andrew.

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Teams from Sprowston, Carrow and Earlham wore breathing apparatus and used main and hose reel jets to fight the blaze, which was eventually extinguished at 9.03am.

Police and ambulance were also at the scene.

It is not known whether there are any injuries at this time.