A fire tore through a workshop in the early hours of the morning, spreading to three vehicles and burning for an hour.

Fire crews from Loughton and Waltham Abbey tackled the blaze in the Crooked Mile north of the town today (November 20).

Called at 2.24am, firefighters found the 10m² workshop ‘well alight’ and three vehicles burning.

Using two hose reel jets and foam, they extinguished the fire by 3.30am.