A man believed to be in his 50s has been airlifted to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest in Lowestoft.

The ambulance service was called at 2.14pm on Thursday (February 9) to reports of a man who collapsed in a property at Marine Parade.

Two rapid response vehicles attended the scene within four minutes of the call being made and were shortly followed by an ambulance crew, ambulance officer and a crew from the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

An ambulance spokesman said: 'The man, believed to be in his 50s, was found unconscious, not breathing and had gone into confirmed cardiac arrest.

'Fortunately crews were able to restart the patient's heart.'

The patient was sedated before being airlifted to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in a serious condition.