Firefighters were called to a wheelie bin fire in the early hours of this morning.

The incident happened on Dorchester Road in Weymouth.

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the incident at around 2.30pm.

A fire service spokesman said: “One crew from Weymouth went to reports of alarms and found a wheelie bin alight which had caught the cladding of a building. They extinguished the fire with one hose reel jet and then ventilated the property as it had suffered smoke logging.”