A shop with flats above have been damaged after a fire ripped through the first floor in Thorton Heath earlier this morning.

Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to reports of a fire in the garden of a shop with flats above in Green Lane.

An outbuilding was destroyed by fire with part of the ground floor and first floor of the shop with flats above was also affected by the blaze.

The Brigade was called at 10:32amd and the fire was under control within an hour.

Fire crews from Norbury and West Norwood Fire Stations were at the scene.