Arsonists are believed to have started a trailer fire at a Worthing furniture store.

The blaze broke out behind the MFI store in Ham Road, Worthing, at 12.45am this morning.

Fire crews found a trailer canvass well alight and a spokesman said: "It was lucky there was nothing in the trailer and the only thing that was destroyed was the canvass round the trailer.

"We are treating the fire as of doubtful origin."