Residents at a care home had to be evacuated after a fire in a storage room. 

Firefighters were called to Braintree Nursing Home in Coggeshall Road at 10pm last night.

Half of the storage room was alight and staff escorted residents out of the building.

Crews extinguished the fire by 11pm.

The fire is the second at the care home in two months, after a blaze broke out in the stairwell in the early hours of December 29.