A tumble dryer which overheated sparked a fire at an outhouse in Ewell yesterday afternoon.

The incident happened shortly after 4.30pm in a building at the back of a house in The Kingsway.

Two crews from Epsom fire station attended the blaze and spent two hours extinguishing it.

A spokesman for the fire station said the incident caused major damage to several other appliances in the outhouse, including a fridge freezer.

No one was injured.