A number of bedsits were evacuated after a fire broke out.

The fire broke out in the kitchen of a bedsit in Glenwood Lodge, Grand Parade, Brighton, at 9.30pm yesterday.

A crew from Preston Circus fire station in Brighton attended the blaze. A firefighter said: “It was caused by a pan lid being kept on and fat catching fire.

“It was bedsits owned by the council and a number of the bedsits were safely evacuated.”