Firefighters managed to extinguish a fire before it reached a store in Poringland.

Fire crews from Carrow and Earlham were called to reports of a building fire at Budgens, The Street, Poringland, at just after 5.10pm today.

A spokesman said the fire, which started in a bin, had spread to a fence – although firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze with hose reel jets before it spread to the store.