Emergency services working to put out blaze after being called to seafront hotel shortly before 5.30pm
A fire has broken out at a hotel in Brighton, with emergency services urging people to avoid the area.
East Sussex fire and rescue service (ESFR) was called to the Royal Albion hotel on the seafront at 5.24pm, and later tweeted that “15 fire appliances, one High Volume Pump and three Ariel Ladder Platforms [were] in attendance”.
