A large number of fire crews have been called to a blaze which has broken out in a village on the Shotley peninsula in south Suffolk.

Crews have been called to a 10-acre field fire near Hazel Shrub off Bergholt Road, Bentley, at 12.10pm on Thursday.

According to the fire service, the blaze started in an area of standing crops.

A spokesman for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said: "Crews are currently at the scene of a 10-acre fire involving standing crop which is well alight."

Appliances were sent to the scene from Colchester, Manningtree, Ipswich East, Woodbridge, Princes Street, Holbrook, Leiston, Stowmarket, Hadleigh, Long Melford, Ixworth and Newmarket.

Grey smoke was pictured rising from the field, which is near East Bergholt.

By 3.45pm, the spokesman added that "significant progress had been made" and efforts were being scaled down.