Firefighters helped a locked-out resident back into her house so she could take her prescription medicine.

Preston Circus firefighters were called to Walton Bank in the Coldean area of Brighton at 3.30am this morning after the unlucky resident broke off her key in the door and was stuck outside her house.

Fire crews said that as a rule the service did not respond to lock-outs as an emergency but in this instance the woman needed to get into her house to take her prescription medication.