More than 40 elderly residents and workers were led to safety when a blaze broke out at a nursing home.

Smoke filled the building and firefighters escorted the residents to a safer part of the home, behind a fire door.

The blaze is thought to have started in a light fitting in a basement kitchen at Regency Court Nursing Home, South Terrace, Littlehampton, at about 9.45pm yesterday.

The fire was brought under control by 10.30pm. No one was injured.