A woman has been taken to hospital after a house fire in Hellesdon.

Fire crews from Sprowston and Earlham were called to the blaze in Berrington Road at 10.45am today.

Crews wore breathing apparatus, used main jets and hose reel jets to extinguish the blaze and a thermal imaging camera was used to check for hot spots.

An ambulance and ambulance officer vehicle were sent to the scene just before 11am.

A woman was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation.