A squatter was pulled from a fire in a city centre block of flats.

The woman, in her mid-20s, suffered burns to her arms and hands during the blaze in Montpelier Road, Brighton.

Two fire crews were called out at 6.30pm on Friday, after people living in the four-storey building noticed smoke coming from a ground floor flat.

Most of the residents had left the building when crews arrived but efforts to ventilate the smoke-logged building revealed a man in his late 20s stuck in a third floor flat.

Firefighters led him to safety by a ladder and he did not need medical attention. The squatter was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital for treatment to minor injuries.

Martin Coombes, a Brighton firefighter, said the fire would be investigated because the building did not have any fire alarms.

He said: "It was a house of multiple occupancy which usually have some sort of fire alarm because the local authority insist on that.

"At some point, the property has got through the system and that needs looking into."