PICTURES show a huge fire in a garden in Leigh this afternoon.

The remarkable pictures show flames and smoke billowing into the sky in a garden off Southsea Avenue.

A spokesman fromt he Essex Fire Service, said: "Firefighters were called to a shed fire in Leigh this afternoon.

"On arrival, crews reported that a shed - measuring approximately 5 metres by 3 metres - was 100 per cent alight.

"Crews worked to prevent the fire spreading to a neighbouring building and extinguished the fire by 2:24pm. The cause of the fire was accidental."

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